Prince Escalus, fictional Prince of Verona, is the mediator of the feuding families in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Escalus is the voice of authority in Verona. He appears only three times within the text and only to administer justice following major events in the feud between the Capulet and Montague families. He first punishes Capulet and Montague in I.i for the quarrel between Tybalt, Benvolio that results in the 3rd civil brawl be...
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Prince Escalus, fictional Prince of Verona, is the mediator of the feuding families in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Escalus is the voice of authority in Verona. He appears only three times within the text and only to administer justice following major events in the feud between the Capulet and Montague families. He first punishes Capulet and Montague in I.i for the quarrel between Tybalt, Benvolio that results in the 3rd civil brawl between the two families, and a handful of servants. He returns in III.i, too late to stop the fatal brawls between Tybalt and Mercutio and, subsequently, Tybalt and Romeo. Escalus is prepared to execute Romeo for his offence – Romeo killing Tybalt – but lightens the sentence to lifetime banishment from Verona when Benvolio insists that Tybalt started the quarrel by murdering Mercutio, a kinsman to the Prince. He returns in the final scene — V.III — following the death of Paris, a kinsman to the Prince, and the double suicide of Romeo and Juliet...
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