Read Capulet’s lines directed at Nurse from Act IV, scene iv of Romeo and Juliet.Go waken Juliet, go and trim her up;I’ll go and chat with Paris. Hie, make haste,Make haste; the bridegroom he is come already:Make haste, I say. [Exeunt.]
Read the excerpt from Juliet’s soliloquy in Act IV, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet.What if this mixture do not work at all?Shall I be married then to-morrow morning?No, no; this shall forbid it: lie thou there. [Laying down a dagger.]What if it be a poison, which the friarSubtly hath minister’d to have me dead,Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour’d Because he married me before to Romeo?I fear it is: and yet, methinks, it should not,For he hath still been tried a holy man.I will not entertain so bad a thought.
Read Juliet’s dialogue from Act IV, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet.Or, if I live, is it not very like,The horrible conceit of death and night,Together with the terror of the place,As in a vault, an ancient receptacle,Where, for these many hundred years, the bones Of all my buried ancestors are pack’d;
Read the excerpt from Act IV, scene iv of Romeo and Juliet.Nurse: O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day!Most lamentable day, most woeful day,That ever, ever, I did yet behold! O day! O day! O day! O hateful day! Never was seen so black a day as this:O woeful day, O woeful day!
How do Juliet’s parents contribute to the catastrophe in Act IV, scenes iii-v of Romeo and Juliet?
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