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    Romeo & Juliet
    Romeo & Juliet
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    Romeo & Juliet

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    William Shakespeare is almost universally considered the English language's most famous and greatest writer. In fact, the only people who might dispute that are those who think he didn't write the surviving 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems still attributed to him. Even people who never get around to reading his works in class are instantly familiar with titles like King Lear, Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo & Shakespeare.


    Of all Shakespeare's works, Romeo & Juliet is probably the most famous of all. Arguably the most famous play in history, everyone is familiar with the classic tragedy, which tells the love story of a young boy and girl from rival families, and the fateful results that come about because of their forbidden love.
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    PublisherKrill Press
    Release dateDec 5, 2015
    ISBN9781518326851
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    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.

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      Romeo & Juliet - William Shakespeare

      ROMEO & JULIET

      ..................

      William Shakespeare

      MASQUERADE PRESS

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      Copyright © 2015 by William Shakespeare

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Romeo & Juliet

      Character List

      PROLOGUE

      ACT I. Scene I. Verona. A public place.

      Scene II. A Street.

      Scene III. Capulet’s house.

      Scene IV. A street.

      Scene V. Capulet’s house.

      PROLOGUE

      ACT II. Scene I. A lane by the wall of Capulet’s orchard.

      Scene II. Capulet’s orchard.

      Scene III. Friar Laurence’s cell.

      Scene IV. A street.

      Scene V. Capulet’s orchard.

      Scene VI. Friar Laurence’s cell.

      ACT III. Scene I. A public place.

      Scene II. Capulet’s orchard.

      Scene III. Friar Laurence’s cell.

      Scene IV. Capulet’s house

      Scene V. Capulet’s orchard.

      ACT IV. Scene I. Friar Laurence’s cell.

      Scene II. Capulet’s house.

      Scene III. Juliet’s chamber.

      Scene IV. Capulet’s house.

      Scene V. Juliet’s chamber.

      ACT V. Scene I. Mantua. A street.

      Scene II. Verona. Friar Laurence’s cell.

      Scene III. Verona. A churchyard; in it the monument of the Capulets.

      Romeo & Juliet

      By

      William Shakespeare

      Romeo & Juliet

      Published by Masquerade Press

      New York City, NY

      First published 1597

      Copyright © Masquerade Press, 2015

      All rights reserved

      Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

      About Masquerade Press

      Masquerade Press publishes the greatest dramas ever written and performed, from the Ancient Greek playwrights to icons like Shakespeare and modern poets like Oscar Wilde.

      ROMEO & JULIET

      ..................

      CHARACTER LIST

      ..................

      Chorus.

      Escalus, Prince of Verona.

      Paris, a young Count, kinsman to the Prince.

      Montague, heads of two houses at variance with each other.

      Capulet, heads of two houses at variance with each other.

      An old Man, of the Capulet family.

      Romeo, son to Montague.

      Tybalt, nephew to Lady Capulet.

      Mercutio, kinsman to the Prince and friend to Romeo.

      Benvolio, nephew to Montague, and friend to Romeo

      Tybalt, nephew to Lady Capulet.

      Friar Laurence, Franciscan.

      Friar John, Franciscan.

      Balthasar, servant to Romeo.

      Abram, servant to Montague.

      Sampson, servant to Capulet.

      Gregory, servant to Capulet.

      Peter, servant to Juliet’s nurse.

      An Apothecary.

      Three Musicians.

      An Officer.

      Lady Montague, wife to Montague.

      Lady Capulet, wife to Capulet.

      Juliet, daughter to Capulet.

      Nurse to Juliet.

      Citizens of Verona; Gentlemen and Gentlewomen of both houses;

      Maskers, Torchbearers, Pages, Guards, Watchmen, Servants, and

      Attendants.

      SCENE.—Verona; Mantua.

      PROLOGUE

      ..................

      Enter Chorus.

      Chor. 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 misadventur’d piteous overthrows

      Doth 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, naught 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.

      [Exit.]

      ACT I. SCENE I. VERONA. A PUBLIC PLACE.

      ..................

      Enter Sampson and Gregory (with swords and bucklers) of the house of Capulet.

      Samp. Gregory, on my word, we’ll not carry coals.

      Greg. No, for then we should be colliers.

      Samp. I mean, an we be in choler, we’ll draw.

      Greg. Ay, while you live, draw your neck out of collar.

      Samp. I strike quickly, being moved.

      Greg. But thou art not quickly moved to strike.

      Samp. A dog of the house of Montague moves me.

      Greg. To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand.

      Therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn’st away.

      Samp. A dog of that house shall move me to stand. I will take

      the wall of any man or maid of Montague’s.

      Greg. That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakest goes to the

      wall.

      Samp. ‘Tis 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.

      Greg. The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.

      Samp. ‘Tis all one. I will show myself a tyrant. When I have

      fought with the men, I will be cruel with the maids- I will cut off

      their heads.

      Greg. The heads of the maids?

      Samp. Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads.

      Take it in what sense thou wilt.

      Greg. They must take it in sense that feel it.

      Samp. Me they shall feel while I am able to stand; and ‘tis

      known I am a pretty piece of flesh.

      Greg. ‘Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst

      been poor-John. Draw thy tool! Here comes two of the house of

      Montagues.

      Enter two other Servingmen [Abram and Balthasar].

      Samp. My naked weapon is out. Quarrel! I will back thee.

      Greg. How? turn thy back and run?

      Samp. Fear me not.

      Greg. No, marry. I fear thee!

      Samp. Let us take the law of our sides; let them begin.

      Greg. I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as they

      list.

      Samp. Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them; which is

      disgrace to them, if they bear it.

      Abr. Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

      Samp. I do bite my thumb, sir.

      Abr. Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

      Samp. [aside to Gregory] Is the law of our side if I say ay?

      Greg. [aside to Sampson] No.

      Samp. No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir; but I bite

      my thumb, sir.

      Greg. Do you quarrel, sir?

      Abr. Quarrel, sir? No, sir.

      Samp. But if you do, sir, am for you. I serve as good a man as

      you.

      Abr. No better.

      Samp. Well, sir.

      Enter Benvolio.

      Greg. [aside to Sampson] Say ‘better.’ Here comes one of my

      master’s kinsmen.

      Samp. Yes, better, sir.

      Abr. You lie.

      Samp. Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.

      They fight.

      Ben. Part, fools! [Beats down their swords.]

      Put up your swords. You know not what you do.

      Enter Tybalt.

      Tyb. What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?

      Turn thee Benvolio! look upon thy death.

      Ben. I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword,

      Or manage it to part these men with me.

      Tyb. What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word

      As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.

      Have at thee, coward! They fight.

      Enter an officer, and three or four Citizens with clubs or

      partisans.

      Officer. Clubs, bills, and partisans! Strike! beat them down!

      Citizens. Down with the Capulets! Down with the Montagues!

      Enter Old Capulet in his gown, and his Wife.

      Cap. What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!

      Wife. A crutch, a crutch! Why call you for a sword?

      Cap. My sword, I say! Old Montague is come

      And flourishes his

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