Rosaline
Role: Romeo's mistress · First appears: Romeo and Juliet · Act I, Scene II
Life events
- Capulet invites numerous guests, including Mercutio, Valentine, Rosaline, Valentio, and Tybalt, to his feast.(Romeo and Juliet · Act I, Scene II)
- Romeo learns Rosaline will attend Capulet’s feast and decides to go.(Romeo and Juliet · Act I, Scene II)
- With: Romeo
- “At this same ancient feast of Capulet’s Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so lov’st;”
- Romeo declares that he has forgotten Rosaline and her love.(Romeo and Juliet · Act II, Scene III)
- With: Romeo
- “I have forgot that name, and that name’s woe.”
Romeo and Juliet · Act I, Scene II
- admirer: Romeo “At this same ancient feast of Capulet’s Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so lov’st;”
Romeo and Juliet · Act II, Scene I
- courtship with Romeo “I conjure thee by Rosaline’s bright eyes, By her high forehead and her scarlet lip, By her fine foot, straight leg, and quivering thigh, And the demesnes that there adjacent lie, That in thy likeness thou appear to us. BENVOLIO. An if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him. MERCUTIO. This cannot anger him. ’Twould anger him To raise a spirit in his mistress’ circle, Of some strange nature, letting it there stand Till she had laid it, and conjur’d it down; That were some spite. My invocation Is fair and honest, and, in his mistress’ name, I conjure only but to raise up him.”
Romeo and Juliet · Act II, Scene III
- courtship with Romeo (This describes Romeo's former love for Rosaline.) “If ere thou wast thyself, and these woes thine, / Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline, / And art thou chang’d?”
Romeo and Juliet · Act II, Scene IV
- admirer: Romeo “Why, that same pale hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline, torments him so that he will sure run mad.”
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