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        media type="custom" key="661873" media type="custom" key="661881" media type="custom" key="661929" **   Act I Summary Created and edited by Kayla Alexander and Jonathan Oberti **                                      **        Act I. scene i          **     To view the script of this scene click here: http://nfs.sparknotes.com/romeojuliet/page_4.epl  **   Act I. scene ii     ** To view the script of this scene click here: [|**http://nfs.sparknotes.com/romeojuliet/page_28.epl**]  ** Act I. scene iii   ** To view the script of this scene click here: [|**http://nfs.sparknotes.com/romeojuliet/page_38.epl**]                     <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">      <span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; COLOR: #27d411; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">          <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">        **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; COLOR: #27d411; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> Act I. Scene iv  ** To view the script of this scene click here: [|**http://nfs.sparknotes.com/romeojuliet/page_48.epl**] <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 140%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     ** __Setting__: nineteenth century Verona, Italy **
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     ** Montague servants and Capulet servants begin to insult each other **
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     ** A fight begins and Benvolio (a Montague) tries to break it up and make peace **
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     ** Everyone is there prepared to fight, especially Tybalt (a Capulet) **
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">               <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">      ** Prince Escalus enters and commands the fighting to stop **
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     ** The Prince says that if they fight again, the people who are involved will be killed as their punishment **
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     ** Lord Montague asks Benvolio how the fighting began and he tells the honest truth, like always **
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     ** The Montagues and Benvolio realize that they had not seen Romeo that day **
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     ** Lord Montague finds out that Romeo has been moping around his room night and day **        <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     ** Benvolio finds Romeo and he asks why he is sad **
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     ** Romeo says that he is in love with a woman (Rosaline) but she does not love him back **
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     ** Benvolio then gives Romeo advice to forget about this woman and start to think about finding a different one **
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     ** Paris wants to marry Juliet so he discusses it with her father, Lord Capulet **
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     ** Lord Capulet feels that Juliet is too young and that he needs her consent **
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     ** He tells Paris that he should try to to win Juliet’s heart over at the ball that night **
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     ** Capulet then tells one of his servants to deliver the invitations to this ball **
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     ** It turns out that the servant cannot read and goes to find help **
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     ** The servent runs into Romeo and he reads the list to him **
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     ** Romeo sees his love Rosaline's name on the list and decides to try to sneak in with his friends **
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     ** In the Capulet home, **       <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">      ** Lady Capulet requests the presence of Juliet **
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     ** The nurse brings Juliet in and they discuss Juliet's age **
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     ** It is brought to the readers' attention that Lady Capulet does not know the age of her own daughter **
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     ** Lady Capulet tells Juliet that Paris wishes to marry her **
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     ** Juliet agrees to take the idea into consideration and talk to him at the masquerade ball **
 * <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 140%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     ** Romeo, Benvolio, Mercutio and a couple others plan to crash the Capulet masquerade party **
 * <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 140%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     ** While they walk to the masquerade, Mercutio tries to comfort Romeo about Roseline by telling jokes **
 * <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 140%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     ** Mercutio starts to talk about Queen Mab after Romeo says that he had a bad dream the night before **
 * <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 140%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     ** Romeo has a bad feeling about the party but he decides to go anyways because it is fate **

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     ** Act I. Scene v **             To view the script of this scene click here: [|**http://nfs.sparknotes.com/romeojuliet/page_58.epl**] by Karmel Design<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">         Picture of Queen Mab posted by Dave Nalle http://www.fontcraft.com/images/mabshirt72.jpg <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> [|**http://students.ed.uiuc.edu/bach/rnj24/pictures/julietmom.jpg</span**]        > Picture of Romeo's quote: [|http://www.flickr.com/photos/karmeldesign/2214395051/</span]>
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     **  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Everyone <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> arrives at the party  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">   **
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     **  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Romeo <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> sees Juliet for the very first time and thinks she is gorgeous  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">   **
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     **  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">He <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">is overwhelmed and forgets about loving Rosaline  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">   **
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     **  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Tybalt <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">( a Capulet) <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">sees Romeo <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">and is furious  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">   **
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     **  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">He <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">tells Lord Capulet about Romeo being at the party but Capulet <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">does not care  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">   **
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     **  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Tybalt is <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">forced to leave Romeo alone but he <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">says that he will get back at him one day  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">   **
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     **  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Romeo <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">starts to speak to Juliet  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">   **
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     **  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">They <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">share a secret kiss  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">   **
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     **  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Juliet <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">leaves and Romeo asks her nurse about her  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">   **
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     **  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Romeo <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">finds out his new love, Juliet, is a Capulet  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">   **
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">     **  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Benvolio <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">gets Romeo so they can leave  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">   **
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">      **  Juliet also asks the nurse about Romeo and finds out that he is a Montague, her family's enemy  **