Quarantined due to the plague, John, a minor character in this play, fails to deliver a message, so Balthasar reaches his destination first and a title character decides to visit a man "in tatt'red weeds, with overwhelming brows, culling of simples." Another character "jests at scars" though he "never felt a wound" and speaks of the "fairies' midwife," Queen Mab, before he is slain by the King of Cats. Agreeing that "parting is such sweet sorrow," Paris's betrothed and Benvolio's kinsman are aided by Friar Lawrence but eventually wind up killing themselves in the Capul
Quarantined due to the plague, John, a minor character in this play, fails to deliver a message, so Balthasar reaches his destination first and a title character decides to visit a man "in tatt'red weeds, with overwhelming brows, culling of simples." Another character "jests at scars" though he "never felt a wound" and speaks of the "fairies' midwife," Queen Mab, before he is slain by the King of Cats. Agreeing that "parting is such sweet sorrow," Paris's betrothed and Benvolio's kinsman are aided by Friar Lawrence but eventually wind up killing themselves in the Capulet family vault. For ten points, name this Shakespearean tragedy of star-crossed lovers.
Quarantined due to the plague, John, a minor character in this play, fails to deliver a message, so Balthasar reaches his destination first and a title character decides to visit a man "in tatt'red weeds, with overwhelming brows, culling of simples."
{Romeo and Juliet}