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Place Act Here 1 List Group Members’ Names Mrs. Diana McGrath 10th Grade English, Period 1 1 October 2018 Romeo and Juliet Gambit Script (Place Act Here) The minute this play begins, you know that there are two families that hate each other, and that this hatred is old and bitter. People are yelling (1 DOWN WITH THE CAPULETS!) and others are yelling (2. DOWN WITH THE MONTAGUES!) There is a brawl which is so violent that the Prince has to come out and lay down the law: (3. IF YOU EVER DISTURB OUR STREETS AGAIN, YOUR LIVES SHALL PAY THE FORFEIT). Then we see Romeo wandering around and learn that he has been staying out all night and sleeping all day because he is in LOVE with Rosaline who doesn’t love him back. And we meet “the boys”his friends, Benvolio and Mercutiowho are headed for a party at the Capulets’. It’s a masked ball, so they all can sneak in wearing costumes and no one will know they are Montagues. Benvolio is excited because this will give Romeo a chance to

get over Rosaline, to (4. EXAMINE OTHER BEAUTIES). When the boys arrive in disguise, Lord Capulet doesn’t recognize them as his enemies, the Montagues, and so welcomes them. (5 YOU ARE WELCOME, GENTLEMEN! COME, MUSICIANS, PLAY!) It is at this party that Romeo first sees young Juliet. He doesn’t realize that she is the daughter of his hated host, and her beauty blinds him. (6 O, SHE DOTH TEACH THE TORCHES TO BURN BRIGHT!) They dance. They kiss She says, (7 YOU KISS BY THE BOOK) Only at the end of the party do they each learn that the other is: the “enemy.” But they don’t feel like hated enemies Romeo ditches his friends, climbs the wall into the Capulet’s orchard, and speaks the speech you’ve Place Act Here 2 probably heard before: (8. BUT SOFT, WHAT LIGHT THROUGH YONDER WINDOW BREAKS?) You know what she says, right? Anyone? (9. O, ROMEO, ROMEO, WHEREFORE ART THOU ROMEO? Deny thy father and refuse thy name. Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love And I’ll no

longer be a Capulet. ‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy: Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What’s Montague? It is nor hand nor foot Nor arm nor face nor any other part Belonging to a man. O be some other name What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, And for that name, which is no part of thee, Take all myself.) They talk passionately of love, but then Juliet hears her mother calling. Romeo says, (9 WILT THOU LEAVE ME SO UNSATISFIED?) Juliet is no fool. She says (10 IF THY PURPOSE MARRIAGE, SEND ME WORD TOMORROW). Of course, marriage between these two is unthinkable because of their family’s feuding, but love is love. They enlist the help of Juliet’s nurse and Friar Lawrence, who secretly marries them. But the families know nothing of this marriage and the feud continues. In the town square, Tybalta

Capulet and Juliet’s cousincomes looking for a Montague. Romeo’s brash friend, Mercutio, takes him on. (11 TYBALT, YOU RAT-CATCHER, WILL YOU WALK?) Tybalt yells back, (12. I AM FOR YOU) Mercutio dies and Tybalt flees But look (13 HERE COMES THE FURIOUS TYBALT BACK AGAIN!) Even though this man is Juliet’s cousin, Romeo will not let his friend, Mercutio, die in vain. He kills Tybalt and then says, (14 O, I AM FORTUNE’S FOOL!) The Prince Place Act Here 3 banishes Romeo to the nearby town of Mantua, but Before Romeo leaves, he spends one night with Juliet. As he leaves she says, (15 THEN, WINDOW, LET DAY IN, AND LET LIFE OUT) The next day, Lord Capulet tells Juliet that he has arranged for her to marry someone named County Paris. Anyway, even though she’s been an obedient daughter in the past, she says, (16 I’LL NOT MARRY YET). Her father does not like her tone of voice and says, (17 HANG THEE, YOUNG BAGGAGE! DISOBEDIENT WRETCH!) Juliet is desperate. Father Lawrence comes

up with a plan and Juliet takes a potion so that she’ll appear to be dead, that way her parents will put her body in their funeral monument where Friar Lawrence will fetch her and take to Romeo in Mantua. As Juliet takes the potion she says, (18. ROMEO! HERE’S DRINKI DRINK TO THEE) It works Her nurse and her mother find in the morning. (19 ALACK THE DAY, SHE’S DEAD, SHE’S DEAD, SHE’S DEAD!) They put her body in the tomb, just as Juliet planned. Unfortunately, wires get crossed and one small detail is left out. Romeo hasn’t heard of the plan All he hears is that Juliet is dead. Many people head for Juliet’s tomb. Romeo, who stops to buy some poison, is going there to join Juliet in death. Friar Lawrence is going there to get Juliet and take her to Romeo in Mantua County Paris is going there to mourn for his almost-wife. Paris gets there first. Romeo finds him there and kills him County Paris acknowledges this, saying, (20. O, I AM SLAIN!) Then Romeo sees Juliet’s body

and takes the poison himself (21 HERE’S TO MY LOVE! THUS WITH A KISS, I DIE). Friar Lawrence arrives just a bit too late to find Romeo dead and Juliet waking up. As usual, he has great advice for Juliet: (22 I’LL DISPOSE OF THEE AMONG A SISTERHOOD OF HOLY NUNS). This does not sound like much of any idea to Juliet. Friar Lawrence leaves the tomb and Juliet decides to join Romeo in death There’s no more poison, so she stabs herself saying, (23. O HAPPY DAGGER, THIS IS THY SHEATH) Place Act Here 4 Romeo and Juliet are found in the tomb by their feuding parents who finally realize that their quarrels have gone too far. They vow to make peace and the play ends with the families resolving their disputes: (24. CAPULET O brother Montague, give me thy hand: This is my daughters jointure, for no more Can I demand. MONTAGUE But I can give thee more: For I will raise her statue in pure gold; That while Verona by that name is known, There shall no figure at such rate be set As that of

true and faithful Juliet. CAPULET As rich shall Romeos by his ladys lie; Poor sacrifices of our enmity! PRINCE A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardond, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. Exeunt)