DRAMATIS PERSONÆ ESCALUS, prince of Verona. PARIS, a young nobleman, kinsman to the prince. other. An old man, cousin to Capulet. ROMEO, Son to Montague. IERCUTIO, kinsman to the prince, and friend to Romeo. BENVOLIO, nephew to Montague, and friend to Romeo. TYBALT, nephew to Lady Capulet. FRIAR LAURENCE, FRIAR JOHN, Franciscans. Citizens of Verona; several Men and Women, relations to both houses; Maskers, Guards, Watchmen, and Attendants. Chorus. SCENE: Verona; Mantua. DURATION OF TIME (Daniel, Time Analysis, p. 191 f.) Six consecutive days, beginning on the morning of the first and ending early on the morning of the sixth. Dramatis Persona. These were first given by Rowe. INTRODUCTION Editions. THE first edition of Romeo and Juliet was a Quarto Early published in 1597, with the title :AN EXCELLENT | conceited Tragedie | OF | Romeo and Juliet, | As it hath been often (with great applause) plaid publiquely, by the right Honourable the L. of Hunsdon | his Seruants. | LONDON, | Printed by John Danter. | 1597. | Two years later a second Quarto appeared, with the title : THE MOST EX-| cellent and lamentable | Tragedie, of Romeo and Juliet. | Newly corrected, augmented, and amended: | As it hath been sundry times publiquely acted, by the right Honourable the Lord Chamberlaine | his Seruants. | LONDON | Printed by Thomas Creede, for Cuthbert Burby, and are to be sold at his shop neare the Exchange. | 1599. | A third Quarto was published in 1609, 'as it hath been sundry times publiquely acted by the Kings Maiesties Seruants at the Globe'; a fourth, undated (but probably later than 1623), with the name 'W. Shakespeare' for the first time mentioned on the titlepage, in some copies. A fifth appeared in 1637. The First Folio was printed from the Third Quarto, with a number of minute changes 'some accidental, some deliberate, but all generally for the worse, excepting the changes in punctuation and in the DRAMATIS PERSONÆ ESCALUS, prince of Verona. PARIS, a young nobleman, kinsman to the prince. MONTAGUE, heads of two houses at variance with each CAPULET, other. An old man, cousin to Capulet. ROMEO, Son to Montague. IERCUTIO, kinsman to the prince, and friend to Romeo. BENVOLIO, nephew to Montague, and friend to Romeo. TYBALT, nephew to Lady Capulet. FRIAR LAURENCE, FRIAR JOHN, Franciscans. Citizens of Verona; several Men and Women, relations to both houses; Maskers, Guards, Watchmen, and Attendants. Chorus. SCENE: Verona; Mantua. DURATION OF TIME (Daniel, Time Analysis, p. 191 f.) Six consecutive days, beginning on the morning of the first and ending early on the morning of the sixth. Dramatis Persona. These were first given by Rowe. |