Romeo and Juliet Act 4 Scene 3 Line by Line Explanation
Juliet speaks to the Nurse JULIET“Ay, those attires are best. But, gentle nurse,I pray thee leave me to myself tonight,For
Juliet speaks to the Nurse JULIET“Ay, those attires are best. But, gentle nurse,I pray thee leave me to myself tonight,For
Lines 1-2: CAPULET:“So many guests invite as here are writ.” Capulet tells his servant to invite all the guests whose
Read MoreBENVOLIO“I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire.The day is hot, the Capels are abroad,And if we meet we shall not
Read MoreFirst Servingman Line 1-2:“Where’s Potpan that he helps not to take away? He shift a trencher? He scrape a trencher?”Explanation:The
Read MoreEnter Lady Capulet and Nurse. LADY CAPULET “Nurse, where’s my daughter? Call her forth to me.” Lady Capulet, Juliet’s mother,
Read MoreTHE PROLOGUE⌜Enter⌝ Chorus. 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.5 From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife. The fearful passage of their death-marked love10 And the continuance of their parents’ rage, Which, but their children’s end, naught could remove, Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage; The which, if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.⌜Chorus exits. 1. “Two households, both alike in dignity” Explanation: This refers to two families in Verona— the Montagues and
Read MoreCAPULET “Things have fallen out, sir, so unluckilyThat we have had no time to move our daughter.” “Look you, she
Read MoreCAPULET:“Things have fallen out, sir, so unluckilyThat we have had no time to move our daughter.” CAPULET:“Look you, she loved
Read More“Ticket to Curlew” by Celia Barker Lottridge – Plot Summary The 1915 setting of the historical fiction book “Ticket to
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