Held back from attacking Romeo at the feast, Tybalt says, "I will withdraw: but this intrusion shall, / Now seeming sweet, convert to bitter gall." What does this reveal about him?

Benvolio asks Romeo whether he is in love, and Romeo answers, "Out of her favour where I am in love." What does the answer reveal about his state of mind?

Asked by her mother how she stands toward being married, Juliet answers, "It is an honour that I dream not of." What does the answer reveal?

When Romeo cuts the Queen Mab speech short, Mercutio says, "True, I talk of dreams, / Which are the children of an idle brain, / Begot of nothing but vain fantasy." What position does this take?

Seeing Juliet for the first time at the feast, Romeo says, "Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! / For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night." What does this reveal?

Told who the young man she danced with is, Juliet says, "My only love sprung from my only hate! / Too early seen unknown, and known too late!" What does this reveal?

In the Act 1 Scene 1 street fight, who beats down the servants' blades with "Part, fools! put up your swords, you know not what you do"?

Who provokes the Montague men in Act 1 Scene 1 by saying, "I will bite my thumb at them, which is disgrace to them if they bear it"?

Who breaks up the brawl with "If ever you disturb our streets again, / Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace"?

On the way to the feast, who answers Romeo's talk of a dream with "O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. / She is the fairies' midwife"?

At the feast, who closes the pilgrim exchange with "You kiss by the book"?

Which of these happens FIRST at the Capulet feast in Act 1 Scene 5?

Which of these happens LAST in Act 1?

In Act 1 Scene 2, Capulet sends his servant through Verona with a written guest list, and the servant cannot read it. What does that set in motion?

What persuades Romeo to go to the Capulet feast in Act 1 Scene 2?

What does the brawl in Act 1 Scene 1 set in motion for the rest of the act?

Sampson says "we'll not carry coals," Gregory answers "for then we should be colliers," and Sampson replies "if we be in choler, we'll draw." What are the two Capulet servants doing with these words?

The fourteen lines Romeo and Juliet share at the feast, from "If I profane with my unworthiest hand" to "Then move not while my prayer's effect I take," rhyme in quatrains and close on a couplet. What is it?

Romeo describes his love for Rosaline as "Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health! / Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!" What is at work in these paired terms?

Sampson and Gregory open the play trading jokes in plain prose, while Prince Escalus delivers his judgment in regular unrhymed ten-syllable lines. What is Shakespeare marking by the switch?

In the Prologue the Chorus tells the audience that "A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life" before the action has begun. What does giving the ending away create?

Why does Benvolio draw his sword in the Act 1 Scene 1 brawl?

Why does Capulet order Tybalt to let Romeo alone at the feast?

As the Montague men come down the street, Sampson says, "Let us take the law of our sides; let them begin." Why?

Why does Lady Capulet come to Juliet in Act 1 Scene 3?