Book summary

             Sunday 9am - Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet meet at a party and fall immediately in love at the House of Capulet.
             Monday Romeo and Juliet are married in the afternoon, in secret. After the wedding Romeo kills Tybalt and gets banished to Mantua by the Prince. That evening Juliet's father sets up a marriage for her to a man named Paris for Thursday morning.
             Tuesday Romeo secretly spends the night with Juliet and leaves at dawn. Later, Juliet gets told she is to marry Paris and goes to seek help from the only man who knows about her and Romeo's marriage, Father Laurence. Together they form a plan, involving a potion to make her appear dead so she and Romeo can run off together.
             Meanwhile, Juliet's wedding gets brought forward. That evening Juliet took the potion.
             Wednesday Juliet was discovered by her nurse at dawn and taken to her tomb to rest. Father Laurence sends a letter to Romeo in Mantua, but it doesn't reach him because of the plague. Meanwhile, a close friend to Romeo, Balthazar, hears of Juliet's death and goes and tells Romeo. Devastated by the news Romeo thinks he should die by her side and goes to buy a phial of poison.
             Thursday night/Friday morning Very early Friday morning Romeo breaks in to Juliet's tomb and takes the poison. He dies by her side.
             Before dawn Juliet wakes up and sees what Romeo has done to himself and kills herself with Romeo's knife.
             At day-break Paris discovers the bodies and calls for Father Laurence. He gets there too late and they are both declared dead. The Prince then goes to tell the heads of the House of Capulet and of the House of Montague of their deaths.
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