Romeo and JulietRomeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career near the end of the 16th century. This story of a love that can never be truly realized and the tragedy that ensues, involves two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families, the Montagues and the Capulets, who had been engaged in a blood feud for many years. Based upon an Italian tale which was translated by 16th century English poet Arthur Brooke into the narrative poem “The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet,” Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet was among his most popular plays during the Bard’s lifetime and along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays today. Romeo and Juliet had a profound influence on subsequent literature. The archetypal young lovers in Romeo and Juliet, regarded as one of the greatest and most tragic love stories of all time, has generated the most, and most varied, adaptations, including prose and verse narratives, drama, opera, orchestral and choral music, ballet, film, television, and painting. Before then, romance had not even been viewed as a worthy topic for tragedy. As Harold Bloom writes, Shakespeare "invented the formula that the sexual becomes the erotic when crossed by the shadow of death.” The word "Romeo" has even become synonymous with "male lover" in English. |
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool; here comes of the house of Montagues. [Enter ABRAM and BALTHASAR.] SAMPSON. My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee. GREGORY. How? Turn thy back and ...
... thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool; here comes of the house of Montagues. [Enter ABRAM and BALTHASAR.] SAMPSON. My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee. GREGORY. How? Turn thy back and ...
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... thy swashing blow. [They fight.] BENVOLIO. Part, fools! put up your swords, you know not what [Beats down their swords.] [Enter TYBALT.] TYBALT. What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Turn thee Benvolio, look upon thy death ...
... thy swashing blow. [They fight.] BENVOLIO. Part, fools! put up your swords, you know not what [Beats down their swords.] [Enter TYBALT.] TYBALT. What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Turn thee Benvolio, look upon thy death ...
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... art thou mad? ROMEO. Not mad, but bound more than a madman is: Shut up in prison, kept without my food, Whipp'd and tormented and—God-den, good fellow. SERVANT. God gi' go-den. I pray, sir, can you read? ROMEO. Ay, mine own fortune in ...
... art thou mad? ROMEO. Not mad, but bound more than a madman is: Shut up in prison, kept without my food, Whipp'd and tormented and—God-den, good fellow. SERVANT. God gi' go-den. I pray, sir, can you read? ROMEO. Ay, mine own fortune in ...
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ABRAM Alack APOTHECARY aqua vitae art thou BALTHASAR banished beauty bite my thumb CAPULET'S HOUSE cell County Paris cousin crystal scales daughter dead dear death dost thou doth Enter CAPULET Enter FRIAR LAWRENCE Enter JULIET Enter ROMEO Exeunt Exit eyes fair fair Verona Farewell father fear fee simple flower FRIAR JOHN gentleman give golden window gone grave GREGORY grief hand hate hath hear heart heaven hence Here’s hither holy hour kinsman kiss LADY MONTAGUE lips live look lord love’s lovers Madam maid maidenhead Mantua marriage married MERCUTIO mistress MUSICIAN naked weapon night peace PETER pray thee PRINCE PRINCE ESCALUS quarrel Rosaline SAMPSON SCENE slain soul speak stand stay sweet sword tears tell thine thou art thou hast thou wilt Thursday tomorrow tonight Tybalt Verona villain watch weep wife Wilt thou word young Zounds