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ACT 1, SCENE 5 The feast; Tybalt’s anger at Romeo’s presence; the Pilgrim Sonnet. INSIDE THE CAPULET house, as two servants clear the dishes, they complain about the lack of help from another servant, called Potpan. The second servant exits as another servant, Antony, enters with Potpan. Potpan is cheerful and suggests the other servants cheer up as well. Meanwhile, Capulet welcomes Romeo and his friends with assurances that the ladies will dance with them. He directs the musici ans to play and the guests to dance, then sits down to reminisce with his cousin. Romeo notices Juliet and is spellbound. He asks a nearby servant who she is. The servant, perhaps hired help, doesn’t know. Romeo waxes poetic about Juliet’s beauty. He compares her to the torches, to a rich jewel and to a dove. Renouncing ever having loved before, he resolves to go near her and hold her hand. Tybalt recognizes the voice of a Montague and calls for his rapier. Capulet asks why Tybalt is angr. He responds that a Montague, their enemy, has come to mock them. Capulet recognizes Romeo and demands Tybalt settle clown, pointing out that Romeo is behaving well and hasa good reputation in Verona. Tybalt says that he wont tolerate a Montague in the house. As master of the house. capulet chides his nephew. saying he will cause a riot. When Tybalt resists further, Capulet calls him a “saucy boy” and says that acting this way will get him into trouble. Capulet alternates between scolding Tyhalt and speaking cheerfully to his guests. In an aside, Tybalt says that he will leave, but vows to punish this intrusion later. Romeo pushes the metaphor. asking Juliet to grant his prayer for a kiss, to which she agrees. Juliet is called away to her mother by the Nurse, Romeo asks the Nurse the identity of Juliet’s mother ancl learns she is Lady Capulet. Romeo bemoans this, saying he now owes his life to his enemy. Benvolio suggests they leave, since the festivities are nearly over, and Romeo agrees. capulet urges them to stay, but they gracefully decline. In sharp contrast to this violence, Romeo takes Juliet’s hand and speaks the first lines of the famous Pilgrim sonnet. considered 1w many the most As the guests are leaving, Juliet asks romantic passage in all of theater. In the Nurse the identity of each, alternating lines, Shakespeare puns ‘on covertly trying to find out Romeo’s the name “Romeo’ (meaning “Pilgrim”) name. Juliet learns this from the as the two lovers share the conceit that Nurse and discov ers he is a Juliet is a holy statue and Romeo a Montague. She laments, leaving reverent pilgrim. together with the Nurse. SONNET The tightly controlled, highly structured poetic form of the Elizabethan Sonnet did constant battle against its desperately sentimental metaphors. Shakespeare exploited its volatile potentiality as the perfect medium to express the thunderbolt of Romeo and luliet’s first encounter. SCENE-BY-SCENE t.5 I 1t9