Romeo and Juliet

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
07/13/1303	Romeo's dream	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
07/14/1303	Street fight between servants	Morning, before 9am. "Do you bite your thumb at me, sir?" (1.1.42)
07/14/1303	Prince's speech	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)
07/14/1303	Benvolio speaks to Romeo	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)
07/14/1303	Paris asks Capulet for Juliet's hand in marriage	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)
07/14/1303	Capulet sends servant to invite guests to party	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."
07/14/1303	Servant meets Romeo	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)
07/14/1303	Juliet's mom speaks to Juliet about marriage	Late afternoon. LCap: "How stands your disposition to be married?" Jul: "It is an honor that I dream not of." (1.3.69-70)
07/14/1303	Romeo and friends crash the Capulet party	Evening. Cap: "Welcome, gentlemen!...How long is't now since last yourself and I were in a mask?" (RJ 1.5.15, 31-32)
07/14/1303	Tybalt notices Romeo at Capulet party	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)
07/14/1303	Romeo and Juliet meet	Late evening. Rom: "Is she a Capulet? O dear account! my life is my foe's debt."
07/15/1303	Balcony scene	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)
07/15/1303	Romeo and Juliet decide to marry	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)
07/15/1303	Romeo meets Friar Lawrence	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)
07/15/1303	Juliet sends Nurse to meet Romeo	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)
07/15/1303	Nurse returns with news for Juliet	Noon. Nurse: "Hie you hence to Friar Lawrence' cell / there stays a husband to make you a wife." (RJ 2.5.70-71)
07/15/1303	Romeo and Juliet marry	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)
07/15/1303	Tybalt kills Mercutio	After 2pm Mercutio: "Why the devil came you between us? I was hurt under your arm." (RJ 3.1.103)
07/15/1303	Romeo kills Tybalt	After 2pm. Romeo: "Either thou or I, or both, must go with him!" (RJ 3.1.130)
07/15/1303	Prince banishes Romeo	Early evening. Prince: "Immediately do we exile him hence." (RJ 3.1.193)
07/15/1303	Romeo hides in Friar Lawrence's cell / goes to Juliet	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)
07/15/1303	Paris comes to woo Juliet	Late evening. Paris: "These times of woe afford no time to woo." (RJ 3.4.8)
07/16/1303	Romeo must leave Juliet	Early morning. Jul: "Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day." (RJ 3.5.1)
07/16/1303	Juliet's parents say to marry Paris	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).
07/16/1303	Nurse tells Juliet: marry Paris	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)
07/16/1303	Paris speaks to Friar Lawrence about wedding	Late morning. Friar: "On Thursday, sir? The time is very short." Paris: "My father Capulet will have it so." (RJ 4.1.1-2)
07/16/1303	Juliet goes to Friar Lawrence for help	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).
07/16/1303	Juliet begs forgiveness of her father	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)
07/16/1303	Juliet takes potion a day early	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)
07/16/1303	Romeo's dream	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).
07/17/1303	Capulet prepares for wedding	3am. Cap: "Look for baked meats, good Angelica; / spare not the cost." (RJ 4.4.4-5)
07/17/1303	Nurse finds Juliet "dead"	Morning. Nurse: "Alas, alas! Help, help! My lady's dead!" (RJ 4.5.15)
07/17/1303	Friar says to be happy	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)
07/18/1303	Balthasar / Servant gives Romeo the news	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."
07/18/1303	Romeo visits an apothecary	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)
07/18/1303	Friar John could not deliver message	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)
07/18/1303	Paris brings flowers to Juliet's grave	Late evening. Paris: "Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew." (RJ 5.3.12)
07/18/1303	Romeo kills Paris	Late evening. Rom: "Stay not, be gone. Live, and hereafter say / a madman's mercy bid thee run away." (RJ 5.3.66-67)
07/18/1303	Romeo takes deadly poison	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).
07/18/1303	Friar Lawrence finds Romeo and Paris dead	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).
07/19/1303	Juliet wakes	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).
07/19/1303	Friar leaves Juliet alone	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)
07/19/1303	Juliet kills herself	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).
07/19/1303	Romeo's mother dies from grief	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)
07/19/1303	Friar reveals the truth	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)
07/19/1303	Capulet and Montague forgive each other	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).
07/19/1303	Prince: "All are punished."	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."
07/31/1303	Juliet's 14th birthday	Nurse: "Come Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen" (RJ 1.3.21)