He is a close friend of Romeo and Benvolio, and also a blood relative to Prince Escalus and Count Paris.

Benvolio Montague is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's drama Romeo and Juliet.

The name Benvolio means " good-will " or " well-wisher " or " Peacemaker " which is a role he fills, to some degree, as a peace-maker and Romeo's friend.

Benvolio is Lord Montague's nephew and Romeo's cousin, with a distant relation with Paris on the part of his father's divorced wife.

Benvolio spends most of Act I attempting to distract his cousin from his infatuation with Rosaline as he himself is secretly infatuated with her, but following the first appearance of Mercutio in I. iv, he and Mercutio become more closely aligned until III. i. In that scene, he drags the fatally wounded Mercutio offstage, before returning to inform Romeo of Mercutio's death and the Prince of the course of Mercutio's and Tybalt's deaths.

Benvolio then disappears from the play ( though, as a Montague, he may implicitly be included in the stage direction in the final scene " Enter Lord Montague and others ", and he is sometimes doubled with Balthasar ).

It should be noted however that in some editions, Benvolio was prematurely killed by Paris at Juliet's tomb in V ( before Paris himself is killed by Romeo ).

A mock-Victorian revisionist version of Romeo and Juliet's final scene ( with a happy ending, Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio and Paris restored to life, and Benvolio revealing that he is Paris's love, Benvolia, in disguise ) forms part of the 1980 stage-play The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

Ben is often a shortened version of the given name Benjamin, Benedict, Bengt, Bennett, Benoit, Benvolio or less commonly Bentley, although it is also used as a formal given name in its own right.

Seeing Benvolio ( Romeo's best friend and cousin ) trying to stop the fight, Tybalt draws his sword to fight Benvolio, saying:

One of Romeo's closest friends, Benvolio entreats him to forget about his unrequited love for a girl named Rosaline and come with him to a masked ball at Lord Capulet's estate.

Bandello emphasises Romeo's initial depression and the feud between the families, and introduces the Nurse and Benvolio.

Director Bruce Robinson claimed to have been the target of unwanted sexual advances by Zeffirelli during the filming of Romeo and Juliet, in which Robinson played Benvolio.

" Benvolio then responds " She will indite him to some supper.

From 1941 through 1944, Robbins was a soloist with the company, gaining notice for his Hermes in Helen of Troy, the Moor in Petrouchka and Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet.

Benvolio serves as an unsuccessful peacemaker in the play, attempting to prevent violence between the Capulet and Montague families.

Benvolio seems to have little sympathy with the feud, attempting to prevent the initial brawl ( fighting off Tybalt to do so ) and the duels that end in Mercutio and Tybalt's death.

She was noted for her portrayal of Judith in Karl Gutzkow's play Uriel Acosta and of Benvolio in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Byam Shaw continued to work with Gielgud, playing Laertes to his Hamlet in 1934, and Benvolio in the celebrated 1935 Old Vic production of Romeo and Juliet with Peggy Ashcroft as Juliet and Gielgud and Olivier alternating the roles of Romeo and Mercutio.

He is introduced in Act 1, Scene 2, but with some notable changes to the text ; when York is giving his men instructions, his order to Montague, " Brother, thou shalt to London presently " ( l. 36 ) is changed to " Cousin, thou shalt to London presently ", York's reiteration of the order " My brother Montague shall post to London " ( l. 54 ) is changed to " Hast you to London my cousin Montague ", and Montague's " Brother, I go, I'll win them, fear it not " ( l. 60 ) is changed to " Cousin, I go, I'll win them, fear it not.

" Additionally, the report of the death of Warwick and Montague's brother Thomas Neville in Act 2, Scene 3 is different from the text ; ' son ' in line 15 is replaced with ' father ', ' brother ' in line 19 is replaced with ' son ', and ' gentleman ' in line 23 is replaced with ' Salisbury '.

Mr. Nadgett is a soft-spoken, mysterious individual who is Tom Pinch's landlord and serves as Montague's private investigator.

Draco then learns of Montague's experience, discovering transportation is possible between the two Cabinets and the other is located in Borgin and Burkes.

* The modelling of Fregean senses is broadly similar to Montague's, but with intensions replaced by finer-grained hyperintensions.

Some information on technical details is contained at Lord Montague's Beaulieu Museum archives in the United Kingdom, particularly a reference copy vehicle manual of the Series 400 car type.

* John Montague's long poem The Rough Field is published.

* John Montague's poetry Poisoned Lands is published.

Montague's main attraction is the town itself, aptly named " Montague the Beautiful " for its tree-lined streets, tranquil river and stately buildings.

The traditional story about his departure reports that he was disappointed with the direction the academy took after control passed to Plato's nephew Speusippus upon his death, although it is possible that he feared anti-Macedonian sentiments and left before Plato had died.

Miss Marple has never worked for her living and is of independent means, although she benefits in her old age from the financial support of Raymond West, her nephew ( A Caribbean Mystery, 1964 ).

In addition to being married to Jochebed, Amram is also described in the Bible as having been related to Jochebed prior to the marriage, although the exact relationship is uncertain ; some Greek and Latin manuscripts of the Septuagint state that Jochebed was Amram's father's cousin, and others state that Amram was Jochebed's cousin, but the Masoretic text states that he was Jochebed's nephew.

He thought that although this King of Magadha has transgressed against his kingdom, he had not transgressed against him personally, and Ajatasattu is still his nephew.

There is a particularly strong tradition of them in southern New Zealand's main city Dunedin, of which Burns ' nephew Thomas Burns was a founding father.

There is no evidence that Claudius had a direct hand in the assassination, although it has been argued that he knew about the plot — particularly since he left the scene of the crime shortly before his nephew was murdered.

The ' Colonna di Stigliano ' line is represented by Prospero Colonna di Stigliano, Prince of Stigliano ( b. 1938 ), whose heir is his nephew Stefano Colonna di Stigliano ( b. 1975 ).

* " Monib Shahid, grandson of both ` Abdu ' l-Bahá and the King of Martyrs, married according to the Moslem rites the daughter of a political exile who is nephew of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.

Near the end of the 17th century, John Phillips, a nephew of poet John Milton, published what is considered by Putnam the worst English translated version.

In the Percy Jackson & the Olympians book The Battle of the Labyrinth, Daedalus is the enigmatic Quintus ( Latin which means 5 or fifth ), and has preserved himself since antiquity by placing his animus, his life force, into an automaton, an idea pioneered by his nephew Perdix.

In several early French works such as Chrétien de Troyes ' Perceval, the Story of the Grail and the Vulgate Lancelot Proper section, Excalibur is used by Gawain, Arthur's nephew and one of his best knights.

In 1938, Edward Kasner's nine-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, coined the term googol which is, then proposed the further term googolplex to be " one, followed by writing zeroes until you get tired ".

" Abraham's nephew Lot is saved from the destruction of Sodom, and through incest with his daughters becomes the ancestor of the Moabites and Ammonites.

The grave of Princess Yourievsky ( 1878-1959 ) who was a member of the ill-fated Russian Royal family and who lived in North Hayling for many years, may be found in St. Peter's churchyard ; and the grave of Scotsman George Glas Sandeman, nephew of the founder of Sandeman Port and second head of that company, is prominently featured in the north-east part of St. Mary's graveyard.

On a few occasions, there is a fourth nephew that appears, slipping through by a mistake of the artist.

David Pogue, a technology writer, journalist and commentator, is his great nephew.

He is the nephew of naval commander Sir Francis Drake.

The uncle / nephew relationship also is prominent:

His nephew is international footballer David Obua.

The young constable with bulging eyes, fourth from right, is Arbuckle's nephew Al St. John.

Guillermi's version is mostly copied from other works with small additions or excisions from the papal biographies of Pandulf, nephew of Hugo of Alatri, which in turn was copied almost verbatim from the original Liber Pontificalis ( with the notable exception of the biography of Pope Leo IX ), then from other sources until Pope Honorius II ( 1124 – 1130 ), and with contemporary information from Pope Paschal II ( 1099 – 1118 to Pope Urban II ( 1088 – 1099 ).

His nephew is the theatre designer Jeremy Herbert.

* 1876 – Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.