Talk:Tybalt

Tybalt

Tybalt is a real live person 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 their 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 appears 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 wasn't 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 interference. Even though he is stopped from the fight, his anger isn't 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 Mercutio, 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 doesn't know that he and Romeo are related by marriage. Mercutio is fed up with Romeo's pacifism and Tybalt's insolence and fights Tybalt himself. During the fight, Romeo puts his arm around Mercutio in an attempt to get him to stop fighting. This gives Tybalt an opening to kill Mercutio, which he does promptly. Afterwords Romeo cannot but help killing Tybalt in revenge of the death for his good friend. Afterward, Romeo is exiled for the death and the Capulets are left to mourn over the death of the fiery Tybalt. His fighting nature, his exiting swordplay (when he enters, you know some real action is beginning), and the simple fact that he doesn't care about consequences all is what makes him such a noble, fun character.[1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.96.11.140 (talk) 17:28, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

In the Michael York version...

Tybalt doesn't really hate the Montagues and wasn't trying to actually kill Mercutio in the 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)

Prince Of Cats by Ronald Wimberly

I've recently added a short section on Ronald Wimberly's book Prince Of Cats, which is an interpretation of Romeo & Juliet told from Tybalt's perspective. It's been removed for not being notable, but why isn't it? It's graphic novel by one of the largest publishers in the medium, that has been positively reviewed by mainstream media like Wired magazine, and it's created by a succesful animator and artist. It also has an arguably stronger relation to both the character and Shakespeare's original than West Side Story for instance, which does merit inclusion in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.60.108.16 (talk) 14:16, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

Less Notable Portrayals

I removed some less notable portrayals of the character to try and make all of the characters' articles' sections' portrayals consistent with one another. (That's a lot of possessives.) But I didn't want to just delete them, so I'm leaving them here. These were the actors with red links or no links, in other words:

• Tom Ross in the 2001 French musical Roméo et Juliette.
• Szilveszter P. Szabó in the 2004 Hungarian version of the 2001 French musical. This Tybalt has more of a backstory, and is more sympathetic than in the play.
• Jerry Midgeley in the 2013 adaptation by BRGS.

So, discuss relevancy I suppose. --Cinemaniac⁸⁶_{Dane_Cook_Hater_Extraordinaire} 03:17, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

I think it's been long enough that I can meekly own up to having invented Jerry Midgeley during a particularly slow English lesson over a decade ago. I don't think other characters' articles' sections' portrayals (whew) include West Side Story characters either, perhaps they should go? BobSagetOoosh (talk) 07:38, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

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