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[edit] Tybalt

Tybalt is a fictional character in Shakespears Romeo and Juliet. He is the cousin of Juliet, and though he never knew it, a relative by marriage of Romeo, his sworn enemy. Tybalt has an unyielding loyalty to his family and thier honor, and because of that loyalty he has a fiery hatred for all Montagues, the family the Capulets are quarreling with. Tybalt, despite that in every scene he appeares he is constantly quarreling or angry, must have been a good enough relative for his family to grieve over his death when he is killed. In fact, it is often said that since he has only 17 lines total in the play, his role wasnt so much a speaker as a foundation for the second half of the play.

In Act I, Scene I, Tybalt enters to help his servants Sampson and Gregory. He is worked up, and quickly draws his rapier to fight Benevolio. We see the first instance of his hatred when he says "What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word, As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee: Have at thee, coward! "

Later, at the Capulets' ball, he is the first to recognize Romeo for who he is, and would have foughten him had it not been for Uncle Capulets interferance. Even though he is stopped from the fight, his anger isnt quelled just yet, and the fiery Tybalt appears looking for Romeo at the beginning of Act III. He enters looking for Romeo, only to be taunted by none other than Mercuito, who was mocking and ridiculing him even before he entered the scene. Tybalt ignores it, since his target is Romeo, who is nowhere to be found. When Romeo does come into contact with Tybalt, he refuses to fight his kinsman. Tybalt is angry because he doesnt know that him and Romeo are related by marriage. Mercuito is fed up with Romeo's pacifism and Tybalts insolence, and fights Tybalt himself. During the fight, Romeo puts his arm around Mercuito in an attempt to get him to stop fighting. This gives Tybalt an opening to kill Mercuito, which he does promplty. Afterwords Romeo cannot but help killing Tybalt in revenge of the death for his good friend. Afterwords, Romeo is exiled for the death and the Capulets are left to mourn over the death of the fierty Tybalt. His fighting nature, his exiting swordplay (when he enters, you know some real action is beginning), and the simple fact that he doesnt care about consequences all is what makes him such a noble, fun character.

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[edit] In the Michael York version...

Tybalt doesn't really hate the Montagues and wasn't trying to actually kill Mercutio int he fight. They were just kind of having a fight to "get it out of their system". When he finds out that the sword he used had blood on it, he is surprised and his group runs away, I think... 69.192.62.63 22:49, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I noticed that. They were just sort of having a friendly fight. --Thrashmeister 00:49, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, thats why I put it up in the discussion section instead of making it a page- just incase someone wanted to build off of it to make a better article. Congrats to whoever made the article here, though, it looks nice! Ageofe 14:43, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Expansion

This page needs another section that includes a small, bulleted list of famous actors who have portrayed Tybalt (For example, Alan Rickman gave a real good portrayal a number of years ago). It could also use some outside links and more internal citations.

On an unrelated note, is Tybalt really a "noble" character? It doesn't say that in the article, but someone wrote that on this discussion page. Tybalt always struck me as a hotheaded, tumultuously hormonal teenager, much in the same vein as Romeo or Mercutio (only more so). I understand that he wants to defend his family's honor, but "noble" seems to be a bit of a stretch...

"Fun," however - yes. Very fun to watch and/or play. --BeastKing89 05:39, 16 May 2007 (UTC)