romeo and juliet act 1-3 summary

ROMEO AND JULIET ACTS 1-3 sumary In acts one, two and three in “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare the story begins to take some twists and turns. To begin, in act one, on the streets of Verona the Capulet's servants pick a fight with some Montague's servants and Benvolio attempts to stop the fight. Benvolio draws his sword and yells “Part fools!/Put up your swords; you know not what you do”(1.1.56-7). Tybalt then walks in and sees Benvolio with is sword out, so he too pulls out his sword and enters the fight. At this point Montague and Capulet run on stage and immediately join in the fight, while their wives restrain them. Prince Escalus sees what is going on, is outraged, and demands if anymore fighting goes on it will result in the execution of whoever is involved. The attention then moves to Romeo, who is sad for some reason and has been seen with "With tears augmenting the fresh morning's dew/Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs" (1.1.124-5). We later learn that Romeo is in love with a woman named Rosaline. Benvolio suggest he forgets about Rosaline but Romeo insists and says "Thou canst not teach me to forget" (1.1.229). Paris comes on stage in the beginning of act two, who is a noble men of the prince and wants to marry Juliet. Even though Paris wants Juliet's hand in marriage Capulet explains he should wait since she has “not seen the change of fourteen years" (1.2.10). Capulet does agree that if Paris can make her fall in love with him, he will let them get married. Also in act two there is a big party at the Capulet house and the servants read a guest list and invite many people. While the servant are reading the list in the street he runs into Romeo and Benvolio and asks them if they can help him read the list. Romeo helping the servant sees Rosaline's name on the list. Then Benvolio convinces Romeo to sneak into the party and look at other girls. In act three Lady Capulet, Juliet