Themes, Ideas and Messages Categorise

'Romeo slew him; he slew Mercutio.

Who now the price of his dear blood doth owe?' (Prince Escalus 3.2.191–192)

'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.' (Juliet 2.2.36–39)

'Give me my Romeo, and when I shall die,

Take him and cut him out in little stars,

And he will make the face of heaven so fine

That all the world will be in love with night' (Juliet 3.2.23–26)

'I beg for justice, which thou, prince, must give.

Romeo slew Tybalt; Romeo must not live.' (Lady Capulet 3.1.189–190)

‘Alive in triumph, and Mercutio slain!

Away to heaven, respective lenity,

And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now.' (Romeo 3.1.84–86)

'Two households, both alike in dignity

(In fair Verona, where we lay our scene),

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.' (Chorus Prologue.1–4)

'We talk here in the public haunt of men.

Either withdraw unto some private place,

Or reason coldly of your grievances,

Or else depart. Here all eyes gaze on us.' (Benvolio 3.1.51–54)

'I take thee at thy word.

Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptized.

Henceforth I never will be Romeo.' (Romeo 2.2.53–55)

'Come, come with me, and we will make short work,

For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone

Till Holy Church incorporate two in one.' (Friar Lawrence 2.6.35–37)

'Ere he, that should be husband, comes to woo.

I pray you, tell my lord and father, madam,

I will not marry yet; and, when I do,

I swear, It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate,

Rather than Paris.' (Juliet 2.5.124–128)

'And for that offence

Immediately we do exile him hence.

[…]

But I’ll amerce you with so strong a fine

That you shall all repent the loss of mine.' (Prince Escalus 3.1.149–154)

'Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,

Having some business, do entreat her eyes

To twinkle in their spheres till they return.' (Romeo 2.2.15–17)

'So tedious is this day

As is the night before some festival

To an impatient child that hath new robes

And may not wear them.' (Juliet 3.2.30–34)

'My child is yet a stranger in the world.

She hath not seen the change of fourteen years.' (Capulet 1.2.9)

'But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?

It is the East, and Juliet is the sun.

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon' (Romeo 2.2.2–4)

'Patience perforce with willful choler meeting

Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting.

I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall,

Now seeming sweet, convert to bitt’rest gall.' (Tybalt 1.5.100–104)