Key quotations — Romeo and Juliet — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Key quotations
Key quotations
What you need to know
The essential quotations from Romeo and Juliet, grouped by character and by theme, each with what it means and how to analyse it.
A table of 30 to 40 key quotations by character and theme, each with its speaker, place and a one-line note, for testing yourself.
Including 'Two households, both alike in dignity', 'O brawling love! O loving hate!', 'My only love sprung from my only hate!', 'wherefore art thou Romeo?', 'These violent delights have violent ends', 'A plague o' both your houses!', 'O, I am fortune's fool!', 'Hang thee, young baggage! disobedient wretch!', 'Then I defy you, stars!', 'Thus with a kiss I die' and 'For never was a story of more woe'.
Edexcel's Shakespeare question has two parts: part (a) on the printed extract marks only language, form and structure (AO2), so context earns nothing there; part (b) on the play elsewhere, from memory, marks the argument and its references (AO1, 15 marks) and context (AO3, 5 marks), not language analysis. Say which part each worked paragraph and exam tip is for.
