Romeo And Juliet
contributor: Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
creator: Shakespeare, William
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subject: romeo
subject: juliet
subject: capulet
subject: hours
subject: traffic
subject: stage
subject: gregory
subject: move
subject: stir
subject: shakespeare
subject: william
subject: english
subject: literature
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full text: ROMEO AND JULIET DRAMATIS PERSONAE ESCALUS prince of Verona. (PRINCE:) PARIS a young nobleman, kinsman to the prince. MONTAGUE | | heads of two houses at variance with each other. CAPULET | An old man, cousin to Capulet. (Second Capulet:) ROMEO son to Montague. MERCUTIO kinsman to the prince, and friend to Romeo. BENVOLIO nephew to Montague, and friend to Romeo. TYBALT nephew to Lady Capulet. FRIAR LAURENCE | | Franciscans. FRIAR JOHN | BALTHASAR servant to Romeo. SAMPSON | | servants to Capulet. GREGORY | PETER servant to Juliet's nurse. ABRAHAM servant to Montague. An Apothecary. (Apothecary:) Three Musicians. (First Musician:) (Second Musician:) (Third Musician:) Page to Paris; (PAGE:) another Page; an officer. LADY MONTAGUE wife to Montague. LADY CAPULET wife to Capulet. JULIET daughter to Capulet. Nurse to Juliet. (Nurse:) Citizens of Verona; several Men and Women, relations to both houses; Maskers, Guards, Watchmen, and Attendants. (First Citizen:) (Servant:) (First Servant:) (Second Servant:) (First Watchman:) (Second Watchman:) (Third Watchman:) Chorus. SCENE Verona: Mantua. ROMEO AND JULIET 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. ROMEO AND JULIET ACT I 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 …