Summarizing:

Charlton observes that while other characters in the play think of love as a game or as a social obligation, Romeo and Juliet experience a passion too pure for this world. (158)

Paraphrasing:

In "Violence, Love and Gender in Romeo and Juliet," Marianne Novy suggests that Romeo acts according to two codes of conduct: one external and guided by patriarchal machismo and the other internal and guided by egalitarianism. (188)

Quoting:

Michael Goldman, in "Romeo and Juliet: The Meaning of a Theatrical Experience," contends that even though Romeo and Juliet are lovers "the image of them that remains most strongly in our minds is not of the lovers as a couple, but of each as a separate individual grappling with internal energies" (170). But I believe that their names are inextricably linked. For me they are always a pair.

Longer Prose Quotations (more than 5 lines)

Many critics see Romeo and Juliet as a failed tragedy. Others claim that Shakespeare was working toward a new genre. For example, in "Beyond Comedy: Romeo and Juliet.” Susan Snyder claims that

[Shakespeare] gives us in the early scenes a brief but complete comic structure and then develops his tragedy of love by exploiting the points of strain and paradox within the system of comic assumptions that inform the structure. . . . The very features that distinguish this subgenre from the more dominant fall-of the mighty strain move it closer to comedy. (171)

The idea of the subgenre is what I would like to discuss.

Quoting a poem or sections of a play in poetic verse:

Less than three lines:

"Go thither," Benvolio tells Romeo, who is disconsolate over Rosaline, "and with unattainted eye / Compare her

face with some that I shall show" (1.2.88-89) and she will be forgotten for some more approachable lady.

More than three lines:

The feast again provides a kind of comic emblem, when Tybalt's proposed violence is rendered harmless by

Capulet's festive accommodation.

Therefore be patient, take no note of him;

It is my will; the which if thou respect,

Show a fair presence and put off these frowns,

An ill-beseeming semblance for a feast. (1.5.73-76)

Thus overruling Tybalt is significant because Tybalt in his inflexibility is a potentially tragic character.