Friar John

Role: Franciscan friar · First appears: Romeo and Juliet · Act V, Scene II

Life events

• Friar John’s journey to Mantua was delayed by quarantine over suspected plague infection.(Romeo and Juliet · Act V, Scene II · 📍 Mantua)
  • “finding him, the searchers of the town, Suspecting that we both were in a house Where the infectious pestilence did reign, Seal’d up the doors, and would not let us forth, So that my speed to Mantua there was stay’d.”
• Friar Lawrence’s urgent letter to Romeo remained undelivered because infection fears prevented its dispatch.(Romeo and Juliet · Act V, Scene II)
  • With: Friar Lawrence
  • “I could not send it,—here it is again,— Nor get a messenger to bring it thee, So fearful were they of infection.”

Romeo and Juliet · Act V, Scene II

• with Friar Lawrence (They are fellow Franciscan friars and address one another as brothers.) “Brother, I’ll go and bring it thee.”

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