ACT I 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; Whole misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife. The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, And the continuance of their parents' rage, Which, but their children's end, nought could remove, Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage; The which if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
SCENE I. Verona. A public place.
Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, of the house of Capulet, armed with swords and bucklers SAMPSON Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals.
GREGORY No, for then we should be colliers.
SAMPSON I mean, an we be in choler, we'll draw.
GREGORY Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o' the collar.
SAMPSON I strike quickly, being moved.
GREGORY But thou art not quickly moved to strike.
SAMPSON A dog of the house of Montague moves me.
GREGORY To move is to stir; and to be valiant is to stand: therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away.
SAMPSON A dog of that house shall move me to stand: I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.
GREGORY That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakest goes to the wall.
SAMPSON True; and therefore women, being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push Montague's men from the wall, and thrust his maids to the wall.
GREGORY The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.
SAMPSON 'Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the maids, and cut off their heads.
GREGORY The heads of the maids?
SAMPSON Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads; take it in what sense thou wilt.
GREGORY They must take it in sense that feel it.
SAMPSON Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and 'tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh.
GREGORY 'Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool! here comes two of the house of the Montagues.
SAMPSON My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee.
GREGORY How! turn thy back and run?
SAMPSON Fear me not.
GREGORY No, marry; I fear thee!
SAMPSON Let us take the law of our sides; let them begin.
GREGORY I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as they
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People needed for this scene:
Tybalt (Clarent Bright)
Benvolio (Cyrus DiMaria)
Extra's (Anyone who wants to be in this scene)
Lord and Lady Montague (Azure Reina, Jack Stryker)
Lord and Lady Capulet (Summer Thor, Angel D'Aboville)
Prince (Savannah Katagida)
Romeo (Shaun Doyle)
In this scene the extra's are the Montagues and the Capulets. They get into a fight, Benvolio tries to break it up but Tybalt spurs it on. The Lord's and Ladies almost get involved but the Ladies break it up. The prince then arrives and shouts at everyone. The Lord/Lady Montague speak to Benvolio about Romeo, who is miserable due to getting turned down by a girl that he fell in love with. Benvolio and Romeo chat and Benvolio promises to find him a new love.
I need help and or tactics remembering a soliloquy of Romeo and Juliet from Act 2 Scene 2, ive posted the link below if what i had said before was not enough information. Please help me i am not very good at remembering stuff and this is 20 lines that i have to remember word for word so its a bit of a task. Any help is appreciated.
https://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/shakespeare/romeojuliet/page_78/
These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder
Which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey
is loathsome in his own deliciousness
and in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so.
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
Is there any examples of a couplet in act 4 scene 5 of romeo and juliet? i cant find any!!!!
Oneβs a Coronavirus and the other is a Verona crisis
I'm in 9th grade and we learned about the first, second, and last act of the famous play in English class. And the last act bothered me the most. Romeo is a HUGE DICK. Juliet didn't even do anything wrong, she just wanted to marry him. So at the beginning of act V this guy named Mercutio was dicking around and trying to start a fight so he gets in a sword fight with this guy named Tybalt. And even thought they're just kidding around, Romeo's dumb ass thinks that they are trying to kill each other so he tries to stop the fight and cause of that, Tybalt accidentally stabs Mercutio, KILLING HIM! So before Mercutio's friends realize he's bleeding out Tybalt runs away. When Mercutio does die, Romeo puts on his dunb ass again and kills Tybalt! Another thing that happens which shouldn't have. Is when this guy, Friar Lawrence,(the guy who married Romeo and Juliet) comes up with a horrible ass plan to get Romeo and Juliet to run off together instead of Juliet marrying this kid named Paris. His plan is this: he gives Juliet a poison which makes her fall asleep for a week, then tells her to fake her death, when her family finds her, they will bury her in the family tomb, then Romeo sneaks in, grave robber style, and takes Juliet and they run away happily ever after, once again, HORRIBLE ASS PLAN! Why couldn't he just hand her a horse and say "here's the name of the city Romeo is at (because he got banished for killing Tybalt) and how to get there, so good luck! But for some reason, HORRIBLE ASS PLAN! So what happens is Romeo receives word that Juliet has "died" so he goes to the Capulet tomb to pay his respects. Though Paris is waiting for hime there, so Romeo kills Paris! A bit much for a 16 year old. He goes down into the Capulet tomb and sees Juliet's body, thinking she's actually dead. So he says some creepy stalker mumbo jumbo and then kills himself with some poison he bought! Then Juliet wakes up, sees Romeo's fresh corpse, and stabs herself in the tits with a dagger! And the only reason any of this happened is because of the Friar's HORRIBLE ASS PLAN! In summary, Romeo kills four people, including himself, and Juliet kills herself as well. And the Friar runs away like a coward!
THE END!! /u/missglitchy asked us to do a little something for the late great William Shakespeare. I had decided to do Juliet's balcony scene, but before I could do that, I was to record something with Lulu. We talked and like all of our great ideas, we decided to do Shakespeare unrehearsed. The Romeo and Juliet Balcony Scene.
Romeo is played by /u/lulubee79 and I am playing Juliet. During the old days women were not allowed to act, so men portrayed womens roles, it's fitting Romeo is played by a woman.
Music: DES'REE: Kissing You Instrumental.
SAMPSON Gregory, legit, this nuclear bomb of me they make nay be tope. I nay shall swallow this, this, this, this poison.
GREGORY Todah, we nay be poisonsmiths of ourselves.
SAMPSON If I see that poison in here, let us be back at it again [with my Kemper stainless steel raptor].
GREGORY Do nay jump the carp. Bad life, nay; bad you.
SAMPSON With nay nuggets, their guthole be certain.
GREGORY Your nuggets deals be daily and dinky
SAMPSON Serpent slut house of Montague, those are my nuggets in there.
GREGORY With nuggets nay, yay nay shall stay.
SAMPSON Gregory, on my word, weβll not carry coals.
GREGORY No, for then we should be colliers.
SAMPSON I mean, an we be in choler, weβll draw.
GREGORY Ay, while you live, draw your neck out of collar.
SAMPSON I strike quickly, being moved.
GREGORY But thou art not quickly moved to strike.
SAMPSON A dog of the house of Montague moves me.
GREGORY To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand. Therefore if thou art moved thou runnβst away.*
SCENE I. Court of London.
Enter Romeo, Cordelia, and Juliet.
ROMEO
Tell me, is it worth while to talk,
Where all the ladies prefer their ambition
And all the stage is furnished with patrons?
Here to pitch my hopes; no, not for the sight,
For the air's sweetest food to poison:
But would I live long, to a lottery!
These seem the days for dalliance.
JULIET
Ay, ay, the days of no temptation!
Romance is an abominable store;
It shall be trifled with in vain,
And not to keep alive the gleam of life.
He would scarce see the world with any endearment;
He must depart, and leave his ruinied soul
To wander all the suffering day in Hell.
So set, and yet with careless hands build,
Disloyal hearts to him who's to guide them;
It is for all the world to change;
Not with a guard of curbed knights, but light on foot,
With a pair of men.
Poor fools we make of ourselves;
So change and go and call them when you do!
He's all well: we'll give him a handshake and our spurs;
But when our bones do heal, we'll see his humble way;
Not a rude stride to the earth or speech to man.
