Romeo has a dream that Juliet found him dead. Apparently Friar Lawrence's foreshadowing is rubbing off on Romeo. When Romeo awakes Balthasar has just arrived from a long travel. He informs Romeo of Juliet's "death", but does not tell him that it is fake. Romeo truly believes that Juliet is dead. He then convinces an apothecary to sell him illegal poison so that the can die by Juliet's side.

Back in Verona Friar Lawrence is told that the letter he sent to Romeo did not make it. Friar Lawrence rushes to Juliet's burial place, anticipating that Romeo will be heading there. 

Romeo kills Paris because that is the logical way to deal with every variance in opinion or understanding. Romeo takes Paris into the tomb to let him die, and then sees Juliet. Standing over her he observes how alive she looks, despite being dead. Next thing you know Romeo is dead as well. Juliet awakes and sees that Romeo died. Without missing a beat, she ad-libs a speech and is out like a light - she stabbed herself with Romeo's dagger. Unfortunately, three watchmen, Balthasar, Paris' Page, and Friar Lawrence all seemed not to be present when these calamities transpired, but were able to show up the instant it became too late to save any of these young lovers. The Prince gets pissed that so many people died, and the Montagues and Capulets agree to be friends. They erect a statue of gold, because gold will last so long. It's too bad that they don't have any children left to keep the friendship alive.

The first scene of act 3 is easily the most exciting scene in the play with the death of Mercutio (good riddance), Tybalt, and the exile of Romeo. Friar Lawrence directs Romeo to Mantua. Friar Lawrence hatches a plan in his egg-shaped head, or so I imagine him to have one, with a bald spot on top and brown fluffy hair around the sides. Meanwhile, Juliet tells her mother that she does not want to marry Paris, and would rather marry Romeo her enemy, when in truth, they are already married. She said her marital bed will be as her coffin, reminding us once again that her love is doomed. Upon hearing this, her father becomes a verbally-abusive whirling dervish of rage

            Juliet dips to talk to Friar Lawrence, who lets her in on his plan. He is going to give her a potion that will make it look as if she died in her sleep the night before her wedding to Paris, and then after being buried in her family’s mausoleum, she will escape with Romeo to Mantua. This plan is definitely fool-proof.

            Now we find our selves emerged in the frothing waters of scene 5 in the 4th act. Juliet’s nurse is being her usual self, talkative and irritating. She tried to wake Juliet, but to no avail. She begins her melodramatic wailing for help, as Lady Capulet and her husband enter. Capulet has his trousers in a twist for some reason or another. He is disappointed that Juliet is still sleeping, if I correctly understand these overly complicated combinations of words that are strung together to form a less than flowing sentence. Next thing you know, everybody sees themselves as welcome in Juliet’s bedroom, and this is including some musicians who refuse to play a consoling song the Lady Capulet. At this point, Friar Lawrence’s plan seems to be coming together well.

Romeo finds his way to the orchard below Juliet's balcony. He proposes his love to her, and asks to marry her the next day. Juliet agrees after drawing attention to the fact that their names mean nothing, and that they are the same people without their names. Juliet warns him to leave before anybody discovers him in the house of his enemy, but he argues that he would fight until he is dead for her. 

The next day Romeo finds Friar Lawrence picking herbs for medicine. Romeo, through riddle, tells Friar that he is in love, but Lawrence clearly does not care for jibberish, and asks him to get to the point. I have grown to enjoy this man's outlook on poetic waists of time. Romeo is, once again, criticized for his quick change of heart, but continues to ask the Friar to marry him to Juliet. It may have been the beautiful valley that created an aura of hope, but, after some consideration Friar Lawrence came to the conclusion that this marriage could mend the fuse that burnt out the light of peace, leaving the two families in the darkness of bitter hate.

Later, in the hours of scene 4, Mercutio and Benvolio are in a search for Romeo. It would seem that Tybalt has challenged Mercutio to a dual. As Romeo approaches Mercutio departs on one of his drawn out rants. This develops into a battle of wits between the three fools. The ill-supplied wits run out as Juliet's nurse approaches. The nurse is looking for Romeo, and Mercutio being the immature adolescent he is, mocks her with bad jokes. Romeo apologizes for Mercutio, and asks the nurse to send Juliet to confession this afternoon where she and Romeo can get married. Although the nurse agrees to comply to make Juliet happy, it is not hard to sense her anger towards Romeo. 

Romeo is waiting with Friar Lawrence for Juliet. Lawrence foreshadows the violent end to the unrest between the families (for the umpteenth time). Romeo and Juliet are joined in marriage secretly.  

One of Shakespeare's most famous plays starts surprisingly vulgar, with clever wordplay and double-meanings disguising the true meaning of the banter between Sampson and Gregory. They talk of their hate for the Montagues, and of killing and taking the virginity of their maidens. When Gregory and Sampson, who are both Capulets, meet with Abram and Balthasar, two Montagues, they make obscene gestures in an attempt to start a fight. Benvolio breaks up the fight almost immediately, but Tybalt, a Montague, calls him to fight. Citizens demonstrate their hate for the quarrel between the Montagues and the Capulets. More obscenity is demonstrated when a Montague refers to his 'Long Sword'.  The Prince breaks up the large fight, saying that if they fight again, they will get the death penalty.

Meanwhile, Romeo is distraught with love and has turned his room into a 'permanent night'. His father does not know what is troubling him, but Benvolio quickly figures out that he is in love with someone who does not love him back. While they are discussing this, a servant to the Capulets asks them to read a slip of paper for him containing the names of invitees to a feast. Romeo, who is a real jerk about it, reads the list of names to the servant. The servant then invites them to the feast, not knowing that they are Montagues. Benvolio promises to introduce Romeo to a much better looking girl at the feast, because that is all that those rowdy 14th century boys are interested in.

Back at the house of the Capulets, Juliet admits to both her nurse and her mother that she does not want to marry, but is convinced by her mother to consider Paris.

On their way to the feast Romeo is still heartbroken. He is convinced that he will never be able to love again, but Benvolio is confident that he can find somebody even more beautiful for him at this feast. Mercutio, Benvolio's brother gives a drawn out, non-sensical speech about, seemingly, nothing in particular. Mercutio begins to become an irritating character obsessed with poetic drivel. 

At the feast Capulet is enthusiasticly encouraging guests to dance. Romeo being the over excited fool he is, falls in love with Juliet before he even knows her name. Tybalt, Capulets nephew, recognizes Romeo as a Montague. He becomes enraged as testosterone surges through his body. Fortunately, his uncle is there to stop him before anything drastic happens. Juliet and Romeo meet, and fall hopelessly in love. But this is not the fake love based entirely on image that romeo had for Rosaline; this is real love. Juliet says that she will die if she can't marry him.