Summary Act I, Scene ii Paris asks Capulet for his daughter Juliet's hand in marriage. Capulet replies that she is still too young to be married, but nevertheless invites Paris to try to woo her at a banquet he is holding that night. He gives a servant a list of guests and tells him to take an invitation to each of them. The servant is illiterate, and so goes about trying to find someone to …
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…is dead, and that Romeo has been banished from Verona for killing him. Juliet briefly laments what she takes to be a well-hidden wickedness in Romeo, but then recants and reproaches the nurse for speaking against her new husband. She mourns the loss of Romeo to banishment and resigns herself to die a virgin. The Nurse tells her to go wait in her room and sets off to find Romeo at Friar Laurence's cell. Commentary