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- Rosaline invites Romeo to a Capulet masquerade ball, a chance for an anonymous date in a public setting. But she gets held up on a date set up by her father (Bradley Whitford) with a handsome suitor named Dario (Sean Teale). Ditched by Rosaline, Romeo meets a beautiful woman named Juliet (Isabela Merced) at the ball, aka Rosaline’s cousin.
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Rosaline is an essential character, despite her lack of presence within the play. To begin with, Rosaline’s rejection of Romeo is the catalyst that sets the entire plot in motion because Benvolio, Mercutio, and Romeo crash the Capulet party to take Romeo’s mind off of Rosaline. Furthermore, Romeo’s many tangents about Rosaline at the ...
Rosaline appears in Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, merely as a reference to her at the beginning of the play. We never meet her and she has very little influence on the drama, but does have some function in the play.
Romeo sees Juliet and forgets Rosaline entirely; Juliet meets Romeo and falls just as deeply in love.
What role does Rosaline play in Romeo and Juliet? Rosaline performs a similar function in the play for Romeo as Paris does for Juliet : a second love interest.
Rosaline is the gorgeous and aloof woman Romeo crushes on until he meets the love of his life, Juliet. But, um, don't get excited, because we never see her, she has no speaking part, and she isn't even listed in the dramatis personae (the cast list).
Critics also note the ways in which Romeo's relationship with Rosaline prepares him for meeting Juliet. Before meeting Rosaline, Romeo despises all Capulets, but afterwards looks upon them more favorably; he experiences the dual feelings of hate and love in the one relationship.
In the scene in which Romeo meets Juliet a stage direction reads, "Enter CAPULET, all the GUESTS and GENTLEWOMEN to the Maskers"(1.4.16, s.d.). You'd think that "Guests and Gentlewomen" would include Rosaline, but she's not mentioned. [Scene Summary]
