Act 1 scene 2

summary

Time: Sunday night

Setting : the party at the Capulets house.

Romeo, Benvolio and Mercutio enter the party. Tybalt recognizes Romeos voice and the Romeo is a Montague he explains this to Capulet and insists on killing Romeo but Capulet tells him not to as he doesn’t want to cause a scene in front of his guests and that having another fight between the Montague and Capulet is not a good idea as earlier the prince told them that they would be killed if it were to happen. Later Romeo see’s juliet and says “forswear it sight! for i ne’er saw true beauty till this night” from this point onwards Romeo realises he is now in love with Juliet. Romeo then talks to juliet and end up kissing. Juliet gets called by the nurse to her mother. Romeo and Juliet then come to a realisation that they are from the rival families.