Nevertheless, Friar Laurence decides to marry Romeo and Juliet in the attempt to stop the civil feud between the Capulets and the Montagues.

[3] When Romeo is banished for killing Tybalt and flees to Mantua, Friar Laurence attempts to help the two lovers get back together using a potion to fake Juliet's death.

[9] He urges Juliet not to be rash and to join a society of nuns,[10] but he hears a noise from outside and then flees from the tomb.

The Friar is forced to return to the tomb, where he recounts the entire story to Prince Escalus and all the Montagues and Capulets.

Most of Romeo and Juliet is, however, written in blank verse and much of it in strict iambic pentameter, with less rhythmic variation than in most of Shakespeare's later plays.