When Romeo refuses to fight, Romeo’s friend Mercutio accepts the challenge and is killed.
Romeo and his companions almost immediately encounter Juliet’s cousin Tybalt, who challenges Romeo. Their families are enmeshed in a feud, but the moment they meet-when Romeo and his friends attend a party at Juliet’s house in disguise-the two fall in love and quickly decide that they want to be married.A friar secretly marries them, hoping to end the feud. Entire Play The prologue of Romeo and Juliet calls the title characters “star-crossed lovers”-and the stars do seem to conspire against these young lovers.Romeo is a Montague, and Juliet a Capulet.The Series Editors are distinguished scholars Professor Michael Dobson and Dr Abigail Rokison-Woodall and leading Shakespearean actor, Simon Russell Beale. With editorial expertise from the worlds of theatre and academia, the series has been developed in association with actors and drama students. Published in association with the Shakespeare Institute, the text features easily accessible facing page notes – including short definitions of words, key textual variants, and guidance on metre and pronunciation a larger font size for easier reading space for writing notes and reduced punctuation aimed at the actor rather than the reader. For the first time, the world-renowned Arden Shakespeare is producing Performance Editions, aimed specifically for use in the rehearsal room. Locked in a burning embrace, the two young lovers are tragically doomed to live or die together. Yet, in this whirlwind of enmity, Romeo and Juliet's passion agitates rather than unites the clashing houses, causing a trail of destruction. One son and one daughter from the opposing families break this bitter conflict by falling in love. In the heat of renaissance Italy two houses are at war.
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