act 1 scene 4

summary

place: street outside Capulets house

time: sunday evening

Benvolio and Mercutio are trying to persuade Romeo to go the masquerade party with them. Romeo decides to go even though he has bad feelings about it because he thinks that he has meant to go and that’s what Romeo thinks “He” wants him to do.       Romeo  “some consequence yet hanging in the stars” – “But He that hath the steerage of my course, direct my sail!”