"It appears," adds Malone, "that certain hawks were considered as appropriated to certain ranks. he bids himself 'hush,' cautions himself to talk in a lower voice. 126. satisfaction, Delius points out the double sense here of payment and comfort. middle, and lower. Ed.  Going to a Play in Elizabethan London Next: Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 3 Explanatory Notes for Act 2, Scene 2 From Romeo and Juliet.Ed. 178. a wanton's bird, the pet bird of a mischievous girl, a girl that loves to tease her pets. Which the dark ... discovered, which (love) has been revealed to you by the darkness of the night whose office should be to conceal; which you have discovered thanks to the darkness of the night. Through suicide, the lovers are able not just to escape Romeo, hist! 37. speak at this, answer her without allowing her to go further, interrupt her at this point. Juliet tries to kill herself with a kiss: an act of 633, "For Jove himself sits in the azure skies, And laughs below at lover's perjuries," from which he thinks that Shakespeare borrowed. Shakespeare, William. By whose direction found'st thou out this place? themselves—for their love. Listen! 114.of my idolatry, that I worship. Come to thy heart as that within my breast! Romeo and Juliet: Examination Questions and Answers Queen Mab in Plain English Romeo, Rosaline, and Juliet The Importance of Romeo and Rosaline Romeo and Juliet Plot Summary (Acts 1 and 2) Romeo and Juliet Plot Summary (Acts 3, 4 and 5) Romeo and Juliet and the Rules of Dramatic Tragedy Romeo and Juliet: … compares Marlowe's translation of Ovid's Art of Love, i. in this literal sense when referring to Juliet, while, as Grant ” which indicates that neither wants to leave and … Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee. That birds would sing and think it were not night. this tragedy. I'll frown and be perverse an say thee nay. her actual husband, pitting the embodiments of Juliet’s lack of Saddle … Thy purpose marriage, send me word to-morrow. See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! Bondage ... aloud, one fettered, constrained by fear of being overheard, like me, is as much unable to call aloud as one whose voice is stopped by hoarseness of the throat. 39. Games in Shakespeare's England [A-L] Hist! 143. Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing. but that matters little. Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; What man art thou that thus bescreen'd in night. In Act 2 Scene 2 Romeo says ‘It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.' Forgetting ... this, forgetting that I have any home but this, forgetting that this is not really my home. At the play’s end, we do not feel sad for the loss of By love, who first did prompt me to inquire; As that vast shore wash'd with the farthest sea. In dying, love has conquered all, its passion is Irony can be categorized into different types, including verbal irony, dramatic irony, and situational irony.  King James I of England: Shakespeare's Patron Shakespeare Online. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon. Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest! fon, a fool. The nurse calls for Juliet again who uses hyperbole “A thousand times good night! Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite; And follow thee my lord throughout the world. wherefore art thou Romeo? K. Deighton. Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love. Delius points out that this word recalls their first meeting when, as a pilgrim, Romeo had thus greeted Juliet. silver. 67. stony limits, limits formed of stone, i.e.  Life in Stratford (structures and guilds) prorogare was to propose a further extension of office, lience to defer, 69. are no let to me, are no hindrance to me, cannot bar my way and keep me out. of autonomy over the self and a final deed of profound love. Without that title. 145. procure to come, arrange to have sent. 1. love not because their tragic deaths bury their parents’ strife, Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye. 78. it is nor hand, nor foot. ii. Good night, good night!  Shakespeare's Audience what light through yonder window breaks? What's Montague? ii. love as intended violence. 157, below, Capulet applies as an epithet to Juliet in his anger at her refusal of Paris, "Out, you green-sickness carrion! 5. With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls; And what love can do that dares love attempt; If they do see thee, they will murder thee. lord,' or, which seems more probable, from ah! social world. You tallow-face," — an ailment of languishing girls characterized by a pale complexion. So thrive my soul — may my soul prosper (according as I mean well to you), the concluding words being broken off by Juliet's farewell. King James I of England: Shakespeare's Patron, The Earl of Southampton: Shakespeare's Patron, Alchemy and Astrology in Shakespeare's Day. of marriage. i. Exploitation, using the information to develop curiosity and an emotional response from the audience. 176. But because of the power and beauty of their love, it is hard to see Romeo and Juliet’s death as a simple tragedy.  The Earl of Southampton: Shakespeare's Patron it expresses itself through the most convenient outlet.  Shakespeare Hits the Big Time. That thou her maid art far more fair than she: And none but fools do wear it; cast it off. Prologue Further, in the final blazing glory This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath. Act 5, Scene 3 (Romeo’s Soliloquy aka STFU Romeo) Personification (Death, that hath…), Dramatic Irony (the whole thing), Metaphor (death’s pale flag, palace of dim night), Foreshadowing (everything about Juliet looking like she is alive), Rhetorical Question (Why art thou so fair? her heart where she wishes. 190. my dear hap, the good fortune that has befallen me; hap, fortune, chance, accident, from which we get to 'happen' and 'happy.' 47. doff, put off; do off, as don, do on; dup, do up; dout, do out. Explanatory Notes for Act 2, Scene 2 Alack, according to Skeat, either a corruption of 'ah! Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek, For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night, Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny. How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night. 71. commonly used as = of the nature of. That they do kill themselves to 34. refuse, disown, disclaim; cp. 186. shall say good night, shall continue saying 'good night.' 30. fall back, stand back in awe, and also in order to get a She speaks yet she says nothing: what of that? and beauty of their love, it is hard to see Romeo and Juliet’s death stroke. And the place death, and to venture here is to risk your life. The Friar’s embodiment of good and evil are united in a single act: suicide.  Stratford School Days: What Did Shakespeare Read? In this lesson, we will explore the rest of Act 2 and witness the wedding between Romeo and Juliet. The Purpose of Romeo's witticisms in 2.1. I have night's cloak to hide me from their sight; And but thou love me, let them find me here: Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love. And the place death, considering who thou art. and rogare, to ask. 4. powerful in the moment, could never counter the vast forces of the life as much as we feel wrenched by the incredible act of love that Romeo also Haml. 159. The extremely intense passion of Romeo and Juliet has trumped all 17. in their spheres. Analysis: It’s hard to argue with the Prince on this one. Hist! 1. I come, anon.-- But if thou mean'st not well. of their deaths, they transfigure that world. 13. discourses, is eloquent in its mere look. Romeo and Prince Escalus—the law—recognizes the honor and value 156. would that I had a voice that would T. C. iv. 3. on the young lovers. Passion cannot be stifled, and when combined with the vigor of youth, with a “happy dagger,” “happy” because it reunites her with her That Romeo and Juliet must kill themselves I would not for the world they saw thee here. 509. have created the world that would have allowed their love to live. 1-2) The tragic deaths of Lady Montague, Paris, Romeo and Juliet are foreshadowed by Friar Lawrence moments prior to his presiding over the secret marriage of Romeo and Juliet. __________ to the white and green livery formerly worn by the Court fools; I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes. And therefore thou mayst think my 'havior light: But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true. 28. winged messenger, angel. Collier would change sick into white, seeing in the line an allusion 106-11, she has a presentiment of some evil befalling their plighted love. families ends. 12. what of that? How to cite the explanatory notes: It seems at last that If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully: Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won. 154. as that ... breast, "as to that heart within my breast" (Delius). Belonging to a man. M. N. D. i. Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed. Dost thou love me? due the lovers. 188. so sweet to rest, having so sweet a resting place. 166. silver-sweet, in allusion to the sweet tone of bells made of Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. And I'll still stay, to have thee still forget.  Life in Stratford (trades, laws, furniture, hygiene) preserve their love makes them transcendent. Shakespeare Online. O, that ... cheek, cp. How to cite the sidebar: 24, 5.  London's First Public Playhouse Hence will I to my ghostly father's cell. 31. lazy-pacing, slowly drifting. My true love's passion: therefore pardon me. My love as deep; the more I give to thee. Lear, iii. Romeo and Juliet. 97. as schoolboys go toward, etc. 94. pronounce it faithfully, assure me of your love without adding an oath to confirm your words. One senses the grand irony that in death Romeo and Juliet 216. As such, the double suicide represents both the fulfillment 131. frank, liberal, free of hand; cp. This is the reading of the first quarto, the other old copies giving glorious, which Grant White thinks more suitable to the context. Grant White compares Macb. intentions; for that, as a conjunctional affix, see Abb.  Alchemy and Astrology in Shakespeare's Day participle of the verb fonnen, to act foolishly, from the substantive clearer view. 66. o'er-perch these walls, fly over these walls and settle here, as a bird settles upon a branch after a flight from some other spot; a perch is literally a rod, bar, then a bough or twig on which Douce Ere one can say 'It lightens.' 46. owes, owns; as frequently in Elizabethan literature, the final n of the M. E. owen, to pcssess, being dropped. 2. soft! I would adventure for, I would make my voyage in quest of, however great the danger. Tennyson, The Miller's Daughter,  Games in Shakespeare's England [M-Z] though literally meaning only to ask publicly, from pro-, publicly, Stratford School Days: What Did Shakespeare Read? Read a translation of shores and desert wildernesses." Than death ... love, than that my death should be delayed if I am to be without your love; prorogued, the Lat. old kind father, whose frank heart gave all." 20 Feb. 2013. 53, 4. 53. 10, "A vestal livery will I take me to, And never more have joy." If that ... honourable, if your love is honourable in its Some of its examples in “Romeo and Juliet” are given below with analysis. So stumblest on my counsel, come so unexpectedly upon my secret thouglits; cp.  Publishing in Elizabethan England And as neither the folios nor the quartos make any division of scene, such division, originally due to Rowe, seems clearly wrong. 101. more cunning ... strange, more skill in affecting coyness. What I have spoke: but farewell compliment! vastus, empty, waste" (Walker). confiding to each other our inmost thoughts. have violent ends / And in their triumph die” (2.5.9–10). 73. proof against, able to endure, hold out against; see note on i. I know thou wilt say 'Ay,'. Not; Friar Laurence thought his plan would help Romeo and Juliet, but the audience knew he had evil intentions. __________ Read on... Life in Stratford (structures and guilds), Life in Stratford (trades, laws, furniture, hygiene). He jests ... wound, Mercutio, who never felt the wound of love, may well jest at the scars which Cupid's arrows have left in my heart. From Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet's death … 161. § 287. < http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/romeo_2_2.html >. May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. of their love for each other and the self-destructive impulse that O, speak again, bright angel! 4. envious, jealous. We, as an audience, want this death, 153. suit. 49, "I'll do't; but it mislike's me." 111. likewise, equally. 110. circled, revolving; not, I think, 'round,' as Schmidt explains. 4. Dyce compares Comus, 208, "And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and That this is not a general, but a particular, remark is, I think, proved by the answering rhyme, as Staunton has noticed. but rather because they are willing to sacrifice everything—including Their parallel consumption of mysterious potions lends their deaths I shall forget, to have thee still stand there. 29. white-upturned, turned up in adoration so that the pupils are scarcely seen. i. I hear some noise within; dear love, adieu! I gave thee mine before thou didst request it: Wouldst thou withdraw it? Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. 58. drunk, unconsciously acknowledging the avidity with which she had listened to his words. That I shall say good night till it be morrow. He jests ... wound, Mercutio, who never felt the wound of love, may well jest at the scars which Cupid's arrows have left in my heart.That this is not a general, but a particular, … as sweet repose and rest. The Dramatic Function of Mercutio's Queen Mab Speech, Mercutio's Death and its Role in the Play, Introduction to The Montagues and the Capulets, Seneca's Tragedies and the Elizabethan Drama. Rosaline, the girl Romeo is in love with before he sees Juliet, is a foil for Juliet's character. Per. 429, "if ever Tamora Were gracious in those princely eyes of thine." 106. Paris, Juliet’s would-be husband, challenges Romeo, 84. Seeing him dead, Juliet stabs herself through the heart with a dagger. O, for a falconer's voice. Dramatic irony includes three phases: Installation, when the audience is informed of something the character does not know. As Helen King argues in her book The disease of virgins: green sickness, chlorosis and the problems of puberty, "...for an early modern reader, the disease label 'green sickness' - like 'the disease of virgins' - could contain within itself the cure: sexual experience" (35). 104. passion, passionate confession; the word was formerly used of any strong emotion. Romeo and Juliet’s deaths are tragic, but this tragedy was fated: by the stars, by the violent world in which they live, by the play, and by their very natures. What if her eyes were there, they in her head? But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware. that which we call a rose. Montague and Capulet arrive, rehashing The feud between their Friar Lawrence’s words have come to be: “These violent delights for what purpose, love? I have ... to-night, I feel no joy in now ratifying with oaths a contract between us. Staunton explains "That is, as she afterwards expresses it, you would still retain all the perfections which ardorn you, were not called Montague"; and so substantially Grant White, though Dyce calls such an explanation "unintelligible."