Romeo and Juliet
Timeline created by missy.feller
in Art and Culture
| 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) |
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