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The balcony scene from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, with detailed explanatory notes.
- Wherefore Art Thou Romeo
Romeo and Juliet: Balcony Scene Glossary (2.2) O Romeo,...
- Winged Messenger of Heaven
Romeo and Juliet: Balcony Scene Glossary (2.2) winged...
- Sickly
Romeo and Juliet: Balcony Scene Glossary. Her vestal livery...
- Owes
Annotated Balcony Scene, Act 2 Sources for Romeo and Juliet...
- For Stony Limits Cannot Hold Love Out
Romeo and Juliet: Balcony Scene Glossary (2.2) For stony...
- Juliet Appears Above at a Window
Romeo and Juliet: Balcony Scene Glossary (2.2). Juliet...
- So Stumblest on My Counsel
Romeo and Juliet: Balcony Scene Glossary. So stumblest on my...
- The Envious Moon
Romeo and Juliet: Balcony Scene Glossary. the envious moon...
- Wherefore Art Thou Romeo
Act 2, scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet – often referred to as the Romeo and Juliet balcony scene – is a central moment in Shakespeare’s play, and one that has become a global cultural reference through the hundreds of years since it was written.
Romeo comes out of hiding just as a light in a nearby window flicks on and Juliet exits onto her balcony. “It is the east,” Romeo says, regarding Juliet, “and Juliet is the sun.” He urges the sun to rise and “kill the envious moon.” He urges Juliet to take her “vestal livery” and “cast it off.”
As Jacques Derrida points out in his suggestive discussion of the balcony scene, Juliet's injunction to Romeo to 'Deny thy father and refuse thy name' (II.ii.34), brings these two...
The ‘balcony scene’ in Romeo and Juliet is fake news. ‘O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon’ is one of the most famous lines to appear in this scene, Act 2 Scene 2, but it’s questionable whether Romeo is actually looking up at Juliet on her balcony. We’ll return to this issue of…
Romeo stands below Juliet’s balcony, marveling at her beauty. Not knowing he’s there, Juliet speaks, wondering why Romeo must be a Montague, and she a Capulet. She thinks a name is simply a word, and it would be easy for Romeo to take a new name, and therefore not be forbidden to her.
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Juliet believes that love stems from one’s inner identity, and that the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets is a product of the outer identity, based only on names. She thinks of Romeo in individual terms, and thus her love for him overrides her family’s hatred for the Montague name.
