romeo and juliet quiz characters

Lord Capulet

Juliet's father married to lady capulet who is out of touch with his daughter. He feels that she should marry Paris and heads the capulets against the montagues

lady capulet

Juliet's mom married to lord Capulet and lets the nurse handle Juliet and also makes fun of her

Romeo

Son of the montages and falls in love with Juliet but is banished when he kills tybalt. He hears Juliet has died and drinks poison to die next to her

Juliet

Daughter of the Capulets and falls in love with romeo and takes a potion to make her look dead to meet Romeo but she kills herself once she sees that romeo killed himself

The Nurse

Capulet servant and is Juliet's mother figure and helped Juliet marry romeo but told Juliet to later marry Paris

Mercurio

He is a close friend to Romeo and a blood relative to Prince Escalus and Count Paris. As such, being neither a Montague nor a Capulet, He is one of the few in Verona with the ability to mingle around those of both houses. He is killed by Tybalt

Benvolio

He is a fictional character in Shakespeare's drama Romeo and Juliet. He is Montague's nephew and Romeo's cousin. He serves as an unsuccessful peacemaker in the play, attempting to prevent violence between the Capulet and Montague families.

abram

Montague's servant, who fights with Sampson and Gregory in the first scene of the play.

Peter

Nurse's servant who cannot read and invites romeo and company to the party

Apothecary

Person who sells poison to Romeo

Prince Escalus

Prince of Verona related to Paris and Mercurio condemns everyone for the deaths in Verona

Lord Montague

Romeo's father, married to lady montague who is out of touch with his son and is the head of the montagues but hates the capulets

Rosaline

Romeo's love at the start of the play but does not receive any love in return

Lady Montague

Romeo's mother, Montague's wife. She dies of grief after Romeo is exiled from Verona.

Balthasar

Romeo's servant who warns him of Juliet's death in Mantua. He accompanies him to Juliet's tomb

gregory and sampson

Two servants of the house of Capulet, who, like their master, hate the Montagues. At the outset of the play, they successfully provoke some Montague men into a fight.

Paris

a count who is in love with juliet but dies when romeo kills him at her tomb

Friar John

fellow friar who was supposed to take Friar Lawrence's letter to Romeo in Mantua. He doesn't deliver it because he is quarantined with in the city

Tybalt

juliet's cousin who tries to get Romeo kicked out of the Capulet's party and kills Mercurio, Romeo's cousin, and is killed by Romeo

Friar Lawrence

romeo's father figure and the person he goes to when he wants to be married to Juliet. he comes up with a plan for romeo and Juliet to meet but it fails