The dramaticin act 5, scene 3 of Shakespeare's  arises from what
    the audience knowswhich is a considerable amount of informationand the characters don't know
    about each other and about the situation in which they find themselves. Compared to the
    audience, the characters in the scene know almost nothing, which very much increases the irony
    in the scene and holds the audience in a heightened state of suspense and anticipation for the
    entire scene.
The audience knows thatandare married, the circumstances of the
    marriage, and everything leading up to this scene, including the fact that Juliet isn't dead but
    simply in a deep sleep from having taken 's death-simulating sleeping potion.
 enters the churchyard where Juliet's tomb is located with the Page. Paris sends the
    Page off to warn him if anyone else comes into the churchyard. As he strews flowers outside
    Juliet's tomb, he is unaware that Romeo and Juliet are married, and that Juliet is...
 
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