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In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. In this death-filled setting, the movement from love at first sight to the lovers' final union in death seems almost inevitable.
A brief prologue in the form of a sonnet tells us that we’re about to spend two hours watching a “star-crossed” love story that ends in death, but also reconciliation between the two conflicting houses to which the lovers belonged.
Prologue (Chorus) The Chorus explains how an ancient family feud in Verona has sparked up again, and what tragic consequences it will have for a pair of young lovers.
This page contains Shakespeare's original script of of Romeo & Juliet, Act 1, Prologue: Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
Actually understand Romeo and Juliet Prologue. Read every line of Shakespeare’s original text alongside a modern English translation.
PROLOGUE Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents ...
Romeo. [To JULIET] If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: 720 My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. Juliet. Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, Which mannerly devotion shows in this; For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, 725