| Sunday | Montagues and Capulets fight in the streets. (1.1) |
| Sunday | Prince Escalus threatens both lords with death if there is more violence. (1.1) |
| Sunday | Romeos is heartbroken–Rosaline. (1.1) |
| Sunday | Paris wants to marry Juliet–she has free well. (1.2) |
| Sunday | Romeo and Benvolio read the guest list for the party–“I will show thy swan a crow”. (1.2) |
| Sunday | Lady Capulet, the Nurse, and Juliet talk about marriage–Juliet has free will–“Go girl, seek happy nights for happy days”. (1.3) |
| Sunday | Romeo’s dream (Mercutio’s Queen Mab speech)–Fate will guide Romeo. (1.4) |
| Sunday | Capulet Party–love at first sight–Romeo sees Juliet–“She doth teach the torches to burn bright” (Tybalt sees Romeo-foreshadows a conflict). (1.5) |
| Sunday | Balcony scene–Romeo and Juliet plan to marry. (2.2) (This scene technically goes into Monday morning) |
| Monday | Friar Laurence’s speech–plants and people parallel one another. (2.3) |
| Monday | Romeo asks Friar Laurence to marry him and Juliet. (2.3) |
| Monday | Friar Laurence agrees–wants to achieve peace. (2.3) |
| Monday | Romeo and Mercutio–battle of wits; Romeo’s back to his old self. (2.4) |
| Monday | Romeo meets with the Nurse–she warns him about “a fool’s paradise”. (2.4) |
| Monday | The Nurse delays in telling Juliet–maternal (2.5) |
| Monday | Friar Laurence warns Romeo: “The violent delights have violent ends”. (2.6) |
| Monday | Mercutio is killed by Tybalt when Romeo intervenes. (3.1) |
| Monday | Romeo kills Tybalt–“O, I am Fortune’s Fool!”. (3.1) |
| Monday | Romeo is banished–Romeo’s and Juliet’s reactions to his banishment parallel each other. (3.2-3.3) |
| Monday | Lord Capulet decides to change the wedding to Thursday. (3.4) |
| Monday | Romeo sneaks into Juliet’s room (even though we don’t see it) |
| Tuesday | Romeo leaves Juliet in the morning–Juliet’s foreboding-says Romeo looks dead in a tomb. (3.5) |
| Tuesday | Juliet is told she must marry Paris (in order to end her supposed grief over Tybalt). (3.5) |
| Tuesday | Juliet seeks help from Friar Laurence–the plan (4.1) |
| Tuesday | Juliet agrees to marry Paris–Lord Capulet changes the wedding to Wednesday. (4.2) |
| Tuesday | Juliet drinks the potion. (4.3) |
| Wednesday | Juliet is discovered dead and is buried in the Capulet tomb. (4.5) |
| Wednesday | Juliet’s funeral (even though we don’t see it) |
| Thursday into Friday | Balthasar tells Romeo that Juliet is dead. (5.1) |
| Thursday into Friday | Romeo buys poison from the apothecary. (5.1) |
| Thursday into Friday | Friar Laurence discovers that Friar John could not deliver the letter–a outbreak of the plague kept him quarantined at a hospital. (5.2) |
| Thursday into Friday | Romeo kills Paris. (5.3) |
| Thursday into Friday | Romeo kills himself. (5.3) |
| Thursday into Friday | Juliet wakes up and kills herself. (5.3) |
| Thursday into Friday | Friar Laurence explains everything. (5.3) |
| Thursday into Friday | The feud ends–“glooming peace”–denouement (the winding down of the action; resolution). (5.3) |
Romeo and Juliet Days of the Week Chart
September 14, 2019