 Hello and welcome. Now, within this lesson, what I wanted to do was to give you a quick five-minute summary of everything you need to know when it comes to understanding the major events that happen in the play, Ramir and Julia. Now, the reason why I created this is because whilst you're revising for this play and whilst you're kind of preparing for this play, either for your mock exams, your English mock exams, or the final GCSEs, it can actually be very easy to get totally consumed by all the notes, right? To drown in the river of notes and quote banks. So, what I thought would be useful is to be able to take a step back and remember the key events within the play, which will be useful, especially if you don't have time in advance of your exams. So, the play. Let's look at a five-minute summary of this play. Now, the play starts off in Italy in Verona specifically, where there's a huge fight in Verona between two houses. You've got the Montagues and the Capulets. They've had a long-standing feud against each other, and not only do the families members of either the Montagues and Capulets hate each other, but even the servants hate each other. Now, this long-standing feud has led Verona to become quite unsafe, and Pris Escalus arrives at the scene, and he warns them that if there's another fight that's caused by either the Montagues or Capulets, the person who started this fight will be killed. So, this obviously heightens the dramatic tension. Now, separately, we meet another person called Romeo, who's a Montague, and he is really lovesick. He's in love with this one called Rosaline, and she's not requiring his love. Therefore, his friends Makusha and Benvolio tell him, in order to forget his troubles, they will take him to the Capulet Ball, which is a masked ball. So, they go to the Capulet Ball, where Romeo meets Juliet. He forgets about Rosaline, the fallen love. However, they're both dismayed at the end to find out that they've fallen in love with somebody from the opposite and the opposing house. Now, Tybalt, during this Capulet, spots Romeo, during this Capulet Ball, spots Romeo, and he decides that this is a massive insult, and he's going to avenge this insult later on. So, Lord Capulet stops him from doing anything. However, Tybalt decides he's not going to let this go, and he's going to avenge this. Now, separately, Romeo and Juliet, their love grows, and the nurse, this is Juliet's nurse, as well as Farah Lawrence, decides to help them in their love. They decide that they're going to help Romeo and Juliet to marry in secrets. They marry and become officially husband and wife. Separately, on one hot day in Verona, Tybalt searches for Romeo. He wants to avenge this insult, and he meets Romeo. He challenges him to a duel. Romeo, who's secretly married, refuses to fight him. However, Makushio steps in and fights Tybalt directly, and this leads Makushio to be killed by Tybalt. Romeo then feels obliged to avenge his friend's death. Therefore, Romeo then fights Tybalt and ultimately kills him. Of course, the peace has been disrupted, so Prince Escalus, who arrives at the scene, decides to banish rather than kill Romeo. He tells Romeo, you can never come back to Verona. You have to leave. Now, Juliet learns about this, and she is devastated. She is so sad. She is horrified to learn what has happened, and she is sad that her husband, who she loves so much, has had to leave Verona. Juliet is in a period almost of mourning, and her parents who think that she's been mourning too much, maybe she needs a bit of a distraction, maybe a marriage will make her happy. They decide to force her to marry Paris. Juliet is forced by her parents to marry Paris, otherwise they will disown her. Now, Juliet is horrified at this, and she speaks to Fraya Lawrence, who helps Juliet fake her death by giving her a sleeping potion. Remember, Fraya Lawrence is very good with potions, using and concocting different things in order to create different potions. Therefore, Fraya Lawrence gives Juliet a potion which makes her look as if she is dead. However, this just puts her in a deep slumber, and she decides to wait until Romeo comes, and then he'll wake her up, and they'll run away from Verona. Now, Fraya Lawrence sends another friar with this news to Romeo. However, this news never reaches Romeo, and unfortunately, Romeo mistakenly thinks Juliet has died, so he returns to Verona, goes to her graveyard, finds Paris, who's annoyed to see Romeo there. They fight the duel. Romeo ultimately kills Paris, but then he also cannot live with the grief of not having Juliet around, so he also commits suicide. Juliet then wakes up, finds both Paris's dead body, as well as Romeo's dead body. She can't believe what's happened. She can't believe that she's going to have to live life without Romeo. Therefore, she decides to also stab and kill herself. Now, of course, the Montagues and the Capulets realise that the children have ended up dying, and Prince Esclis tells them that it's this feud and the lack of forgiveness that has caused this entire tragedy. So they agree to forgive each other and the play ends. So that's really it when it comes to understanding Romeo and Juliet and the key events within five minutes. Thank you so much for listening.