Analyzing the Play for Evidence
Friar Laurence: I will be brief, for my short date of breath
Is not so long as is a tedious tale.
Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet;
And she, there dead, that Romeo's faithful wife:
I married them; and their stolen marriage-day
Was Tybalt's doomsday, whose untimely death
Banish'd the new-made bridegroom from this city;
For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pin'd.
You, to remove that siege of grief from her,
Betroth'd, and would have married her perforce,
To County Paris: then comes she to me,
And, with wild looks bid me devise some mean
To rid her from this second marriage,
Or in my cell there would she kill herself.
Then give I her, — so tutor'd by my art,—
A sleeping potion; which so took effect
As I intended, for it wrought on her
The form of death.
—Romeo and Juliet,
William Shakespeare
Which details support the idea that secrets are a leading cause of the catastrophe? Check all that apply.
“not so long as is a tedious tale”
“their stolen marriage-day”
“then comes she to me”
“For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pin’d”
“for it wrought on her / The form of death”