Romeo and Juliet

Romeo's dream

Jul 13, 1303

Romeo has a prophetic dream that "my mind misgives / some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, / shall bitterly begin his fearful date / with this night's revels and expire the term / of a despised life, closed in my breast / by some vile forfeit of untimely death" (RJ 1.5.113-118) = cause / effect = going to the party will lead to his death somehow

Street fight between servants

Jul 14, 1303

Morning, before 9am.

"Do you bite your thumb at me, sir?" (1.1.42)

Prince's speech

Jul 14, 1303

Just before 9am.
"Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace, / profaners of this neighbor-stained steel--" ...
"Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word / by thee old Capulet, and Montague / have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets..."
"If ever you disturb our streets again, / your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace" (RJ 1.1.77-99)

Benvolio speaks to Romeo

Jul 14, 1303

Around 9am.
Ben: "In love?"
Rom: "Out."
Ben: "Of love?"
Rom: "Out of her favor where I am in love." (RJ 1.1.163-166)

Paris asks Capulet for Juliet's hand in marriage

Jul 14, 1303

Afternoon.
Cap: "But saying o'er what I have said before: / my child is yet a stranger in the world / she hath not seen the change of fourteen years; / let two more summers wither in their pride / ere we may think her ripe to be a bride" (RJ 1.2.7-11)

Capulet sends servant to invite guests to party

Jul 14, 1303

Afternoon.
Cap; "Go, sirrah, trudge about / through fair Verona; find those persons out / whose names are written there, and to them say / my house and welcome on their pleasure stay."

Servant meets Romeo

Jul 14, 1303

Afternoon.
Servant: "I pray, sir, can you read?"
Rom: "Ay, mine own fortune in my misery."
Servant: "Can you read anything you see?"
Rom: "Ay, if I know the letters and the language." (RJ 1.2.59-63)

Juliet's mom speaks to Juliet about marriage

Jul 14, 1303

Late afternoon.
LCap: "How stands your disposition to be married?"
Jul: "It is an honor that I dream not of." (1.3.69-70)

Romeo and friends crash the Capulet party

Jul 14, 1303

Evening.
Cap: "Welcome, gentlemen!...How long is't now since last yourself and I were in a mask?" (RJ 1.5.15, 31-32)

Tybalt notices Romeo at Capulet party

Jul 14, 1303

Late evening.
Tyb: "This by his voice should be a Montague / Fetch me my rapier boy. What, dares the slave / come hither, cover'd with an antic face / to fleer and scorn at our solemnity?" (RJ 1.5.56-59)

Romeo and Juliet meet

Jul 14, 1303

Late evening.
Rom: "Is she a Capulet? O dear account! my life is my foe's debt."

Balcony scene

Jul 15, 1303

Midnight.
Rom: "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?" (RJ 2.2.3)
Jul: "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" (RJ 2.2.35)

Romeo and Juliet decide to marry

Jul 15, 1303

2 or 3am.
Jul: "Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed. / If that thy bent of love be honorable, thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow." (RJ 2.2.149-150)

Romeo meets Friar Lawrence

Jul 15, 1303

5 or 6am.
Rom: "Then plainly know my heart's dear love is set / on the fair daughter of rich Capulet ... this I pray / that thou consent to marry us today" (RJ 2.3.58-59, 64-65)

Juliet sends Nurse to meet Romeo

Jul 15, 1303

Around 9am. Nurse: "If ye should lead her in a fool's paradise, as they say, it were a very gross kind of behavior, as they say, for the gentle woman is young; and therefore, if you should deal double with her, truly it were an ill thing to be off'red to any gentlewoman, and a very weak dealing." (RJ 2.4.152-156)

Nurse returns with news for Juliet

Jul 15, 1303

Noon. Nurse: "Hie you hence to Friar Lawrence' cell / there stays a husband to make you a wife." (RJ 2.5.70-71)

Romeo and Juliet marry

Jul 15, 1303

Around 1pm. Friar: "These violent delights have violent ends / and in their triumph die, like fire and powder / which, as they kiss, consume." (RJ 2.6.9-10)

Tybalt kills Mercutio

Jul 15, 1303

After 2pm Mercutio: "Why the devil came you between us? I was hurt under your arm." (RJ 3.1.103)

Romeo kills Tybalt

Jul 15, 1303

After 2pm. Romeo: "Either thou or I, or both, must go with him!" (RJ 3.1.130)

Prince banishes Romeo

Jul 15, 1303

Early evening. Prince: "Immediately do we exile him hence." (RJ 3.1.193)

Paris comes to woo Juliet

Jul 15, 1303

Late evening. Paris: "These times of woe afford no time to woo." (RJ 3.4.8)

Romeo hides in Friar Lawrence's cell / goes to Juliet

Jul 15, 1303

Late evening. Friar: "Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable. / Go get thee to thy love, as was decreed, / ascend her chamber hence and comfort her / but look thou stay not till the watch be set / for then thou canst not pass to Mantua / where thou shalt live till we can find a time / to blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends, / beg pardon of the prince, and call thee back / with twenty hundred thousand times more joy / than thou wen'st forth in lamentation." (RJ 3.3.151-160)

Paris speaks to Friar Lawrence about wedding

Jul 16, 1303

Late morning. Friar: "On Thursday, sir? The time is very short."
Paris: "My father Capulet will have it so." (RJ 4.1.1-2)

Romeo must leave Juliet

Jul 16, 1303

Early morning. Jul: "Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day." (RJ 3.5.1)

Juliet's parents say to marry Paris

Jul 16, 1303

Morning. Cap: "An you be mine, I'll give you to my friend. / And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets, / for by my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee / nor what is mine shall never do thee good." (RJ 3.5.200-202).

Nurse tells Juliet: marry Paris

Jul 16, 1303

Morning. Jul: "Speak'st thou from thy heart?"
Nurse: "And from my soul too, / else beshrew them both."
Jul: "Amen." (RJ 3.5.236-239)

Juliet goes to Friar Lawrence for help

Jul 16, 1303

Late morning. Friar: "I do spy a kind of hope / which craves as desperate an execution / as that is desperate which we would prevent...in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death / thou shalt continue two and forty hours..." (RJ 4.1.69-71, 105-106).

Juliet begs forgiveness of her father

Jul 16, 1303

Afternoon. Cap: "How now, my headstrong? Where have you been gadding?"
Jul: "Pardon, I beseech you. Henceforward, I am ever rul'd by you."
Cap: "Send for the County. Go tell him of this. / We'll have this knot knit up tomorrow morning." (RJ 4.2. 16, 22-25)

Juliet takes potion a day early

Jul 16, 1303

Evening (between 8 and 9pm) Jul: "What if this mixture do not work at all? / Shall I be married then to-morrow morning? / No, no! This shall forbid it. Lie thou there. (Lays down a dagger.) (RJ 4.3.22-24)

Romeo's dream

Jul 16, 1303

Late evening. Rom: "My dreams presage some joyful news at hand...I dreamt my lady came and found me dead / and breathed such life with kisses in my lips / that I reviv'd and was an emperor." (RJ 5.1.2, 6-9).

Capulet prepares for wedding

Jul 17, 1303

3am. Cap: "Look for baked meats, good Angelica; / spare not the cost." (RJ 4.4.4-5)

Nurse finds Juliet "dead"

Jul 17, 1303

Morning. Nurse: "Alas, alas! Help, help! My lady's dead!" (RJ 4.5.15)

Friar says to be happy

Jul 17, 1303

Morning. Friar: "Heaven and yourself / had part in this fair maid! now heaven hath all / and all the better it is for the maid." (RJ 4.5.70-71)

Romeo kills Paris

Jul 18, 1303

Late evening. Rom: "Stay not, be gone. Live, and hereafter say / a madman's mercy bid thee run away." (RJ 5.3.66-67)

Balthasar / Servant gives Romeo the news

Jul 18, 1303

Morning. Rom: "How fares my Juliet? That I ask again, / for nothing can be ill if she be well."
Bal: "Then she is well, and nothing can be ill. Her body sleeps in Capel's monument."

Romeo visits an apothecary

Jul 18, 1303

Afternoon. Apoth: "Such mortal drugs I have; but Mantua's law / is death to any he that utters them."
Rom: "I pay thy poverty and not thy will." (RJ 5.1.69-70, 79)

Friar John could not deliver message

Jul 18, 1303

Late evening. Friar John: "I could not send it -- here it is again -- nor get a messenger to bring it thee / so fearful were they of infection."
Friar Lawrence: "Unhappy fortune! The letter was not nice, but full of charge / of dear import, and the neglecting it / may do much danger." (RJ 5.2.14-20)

Paris brings flowers to Juliet's grave

Jul 18, 1303

Late evening. Paris: "Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew." (RJ 5.3.12)

Romeo takes deadly poison

Jul 18, 1303

Late evening. Rom: "Here's to my love. O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss, I die." (RJ 5.3.119-120).

Friar Lawrence finds Romeo and Paris dead

Jul 18, 1303

Late evening. Friar: "Romeo! O pale! Who else? What, Paris too? And steep'd in blood? Ah, what an unkind hour is guilty of this lamentable chance!" (RJ 5.3.149-151).

Juliet wakes

Jul 19, 1303

1 or 2am. Jul: "Oh comfortable friar! where is my lord?"
Friar: "A greater power than we can contradict / hath thwarted our intents. Come, come away / Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead / and Paris too." (RJ 5.3.153, 158-161).

Friar leaves Juliet alone

Jul 19, 1303

1 or 2am. Friar; "Stay not to question, for the watch is coming. / Come, go, good Juliet. I dare no longer stay." (RJ 5.3.163-164)

Juliet kills herself

Jul 19, 1303

1 or 2am Jul: "Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust and let me die." (RJ 5.3.174-175).

Romeo's mother dies from grief

Jul 19, 1303

Morning. Montague: "Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight! / Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath." (RJ 5.3.221-222)

Friar reveals the truth

Jul 19, 1303

Morning. Friar: "I am the greatest, able to do least / yet most suspected, as the time and place / doth make against me, of this direful murder / and here I stand, both to impeach and purge / myself condemned and myself excus'd." (RJ 5.3.234-238)

Capulet and Montague forgive each other

Jul 19, 1303

Morning. Cap: "O brother Montague, give me thy hand. / This is my daughter's jointure, for no more / can I demand." (RJ 5.3.307-308).

Prince: "All are punished."

Jul 19, 1303

Morning. 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 pardoned, some punished. / for never was a story of more woe / than this of Juliet and her Romeo."

Juliet's 14th birthday

Jul 31, 1303

Nurse: "Come Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen" (RJ 1.3.21)