Friar Lawrence begins his plan: "Hold then. Go home, be merry, give consent / To marry Paris." Why does he open with that instruction?

The Friar tells Juliet, "Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone, / Let not thy Nurse lie with thee in thy chamber." What does this step protect?

"Take thou this vial, being then in bed, / And this distilled liquor drink thou off," says the Friar, promising "no pulse / Shall keep his native progress, but surcease." What is the drink supposed to do?

"Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, / And then awake as from a pleasant sleep." Why does the Friar want that particular stretch of time?

The Friar counts on the family's own custom: "In thy best robes, uncover'd, on the bier, / Thou shalt be borne to that same ancient vault." What does he need that custom to do?

"Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift," the Friar says, adding, "I'll send a friar with speed / To Mantua, with my letters to thy lord." What is this step for?

The Friar finishes: "and he and I / Will watch thy waking, and that very night / Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua." What is the plan's intended ending?

At the cell Juliet tells the Friar that if he can give no help, "And with this knife I'll help it presently." What is she doing?

"O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, / From off the battlements of yonder tower," Juliet says, and goes on to offer to hide in a charnel-house. What state of mind does the list show?

Paris explains the rush to the Friar: "Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death," and "her father counts it dangerous / That she do give her sorrow so much sway." What is Capulet's stated motive?

Juliet gets rid of her mother and the Nurse with "So please you, let me now be left alone," saying she needs to pray. Why does she really want the room?

Alone with the vial Juliet asks, "How if, when I am laid into the tomb, / I wake before the time that Romeo / Come to redeem me?" What fear is this?

Still holding the vial, Juliet thinks of the vault "Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth, / Lies festering in his shroud." What is she working herself toward?

Which of these happens LAST in Act 4?

Told that Juliet has gone to Friar Lawrence, Capulet says, "Well, he may chance to do some good on her." What does the audience know that Capulet does not?

Paris greets Juliet at the cell with "Happily met, my lady and my wife!" Where is the dramatic irony?

Capulet drives the servants at daybreak: "Come, stir, stir, stir! The second cock hath crow'd, / The curfew bell hath rung, 'tis three o'clock." What does the audience know about all this preparation?

The Nurse calls up the bed: "Why, lamb, why, lady, fie, you slug-abed!" and jokes that she may "Sleep for a week". What makes the joke land so hard on the audience?

Over the body Friar Lawrence tells the parents, "Heaven and yourself / Had part in this fair maid, now heaven hath all." What does the audience know as he speaks?

In his aside about the Thursday wedding, Friar Lawrence says, "I would I knew not why it should be slow'd." What is he admitting to the audience?

Fending Paris off at the cell, Juliet says of her face, "It may be so, for it is not mine own." What is she claiming?

Speaking to Paris beside the bed, Capulet says, "Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir; / My daughter he hath wedded." What is he saying?

Answering the Friar over Juliet's body, Capulet says, "All things that we ordained festival / Turn from their office to black funeral", listing bells for instruments and dirges for hymns. What is he describing?

Pleased by Juliet's sudden apology, Capulet says, "I'll have this knot knit up tomorrow morning." What does that do to the timetable?

Which of these happens FIRST in Act 4 Scene 1?