Romeo and Juliet Act 4: 177-207

So we ended with Juliet visiting Friar Lawrence to ask for advice. The two devise a sneaky little plan. Friar Lawrence gives Juliet a potion that will make her appear dead for a couple days. She is instructed to take this as her family is making wedding preparations. Once she is discovered as "dead," she will be put in a tomb and Romeo will come and saver her just as she awakes from her sleep. So Juliet takes the potion home with her and just as the wedding preparations take full swing, she downs the poison and they find her body the next morning.

Compared to the other acts, act 4 is pretty short. Despite the brevity, I think it's my favorite section. So much action is crammed into this one act that it's impossible to not read the whole act in one sitting.