“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.”
So begins the well-known tragedy
of Romeo and Juliet, anent
two star-struck lovers, each one from a house
that loathes the other; he a Montague
and she a Capulet, yet destined both
to fall in love, and into the same grave.
Act one presents a quarrel in the streets,
a tussle – thankfully, no one is hurt.
From this, we see reciprocated there
the hatred that defines the two great clans
and brings about the doom that is to come.
Act two: out struts the suitor Paris, one
who wants, and almost gets dear Juliet,
against her will. Such is the case back then
of marriage rites and marriage politics.
During her family’s resplendent ball,
she sets her sights, and lips, on our main man
– on Romeo, sworn enemy in blood.
As Paradise exists before the Fall,
the love of hero and of heroine
is brightest and most blinding in the night:
the celebrated balc’ny scene that we
present to you.
Hark! ‘Tis Benvolio!
Hear what he says:
“Go then, for ‘tis in vain
To seek him here that means not to be found.”
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A good friend is someone who will be sitting right next to you, saying,
"Damn! That was fun!"
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