In order to explore how a play creates an experience for the audience, one of the elements of the play that should be studied is setting. Considering where and when the action occurs is necessary to better understand the play. The play Romeo and Juliet takes place, most generally, in the cities of Verona and Mantua, Italy, over the course of four short days. The setting is a representative place, meaning that the stage represents an actual place. All of the scenes occur in Verona, except Act V, scene 1, which takes place in the city of Mantua. Verona is the home of the Capulet and Montague families. Mantua is where Romeo is banished after he kills Tybalt. A majority of the action in the play takes place out-of-doors in Verona, from the fruitful Capulet orchard where Romeo and Juliet profess their love, to the bleak Capulet tomb where the lovers take their lives. The vision of the world that is suggested by the setting is social, in spite of the political connotations that arise when the lovers are told that they are to hate each other because of their names. The action neither befell a war between states, nor is it an abstraction. Much of the action of the play is centered on the civil disorder that occurs between the Capulet and Montague families.