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End of Romeo and Juliet.

Read: Act 5, Sn. 1 aloud: 3 readers (Romeo, Balthasar, and Apothocary) Romeo is in Mantua awaiting news from Friar Lawrence. Balthasar comes, not knowing that Juliet is not really dead, and tells him this news. Romeo, in grief, laments and then makes his plan to go back to Verona to die with her. He stops at an apothecary’s home to buy poison.

Summarize: Act 5, Sn. 2: Sn. 3: Read aloud through Juliet’s death: pg. 231, summarize until Prince’s speech at the end. Need: Paris, Balthasar, Romeo, Page, Friar Lawrence, Juliet Read: Act. 5, Sn. 3 through Juliet’s death on pg. 231, and then summarize the rest of the scene until the Prince’s final lines. 6 readers: Paris, Balthasar, Romeo, Page, Friar Lawrence, and Juliet.
 * Friar John comes to visit Friar Lawrence and tells him that he was unable to deliver the letter to Romeo explaining Juliet’s death because of the fear of the plague in the house he stays at on the way.
 * Friar Lawrence hurries to the tomb where Juliet lies to be there when she wakes up. He writes another letter to Romeo in hopes that he can still reach him.

Watch: final scene in 1997 version

HW: Prepare for final. You will have one more workday before finals begin.