Benvolio

Family: Montagues · Role: kinsman · First appears: Romeo and Juliet · Act I, Scene I

Life events

• A street brawl erupts between the Capulet and Montague factions.(Romeo and Juliet · Act I, Scene I · 📍 Verona)
  • With: Tybalt Capulet Montague
  • “What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!”

Romeo and Juliet · Act I, Scene I

• enemies with Tybalt “I hate the word As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee: Have at thee, coward.”
• elder kin: Montague “My noble uncle, do you know the cause?”
• cousins with Romeo “Good morrow, cousin.”

Romeo and Juliet · Act I, Scene II

• friends with Romeo “Tut, man, one fire burns out another’s burning, One pain is lessen’d by another’s anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another’s languish:”

Romeo and Juliet · Act I, Scene IV

• friends with Romeo “Enter Romeo, Mercutio, Benvolio, with five or six Maskers; Torch-bearers and others.”
• friends with Mercutio “Enter Romeo, Mercutio, Benvolio, with five or six Maskers; Torch-bearers and others.”

Romeo and Juliet · Act II, Scene I

• cousins with Romeo “Romeo! My cousin Romeo! Romeo!”

Romeo and Juliet · Act II, Scene IV

• friends with Mercutio “Come between us, good Benvolio; my wits faint.”

Romeo and Juliet · Act III, Scene I

• with Montague (Lady Capulet identifies Benvolio as a kinsman of Montague.) “He is a kinsman to the Montague.”

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Extracted from the original text of Shakespeare's Tragedies. Made with Rho MD.