The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: ACT I
Introduction ACT I PROLOGUE SCENE I. Verona. A public place. SCENE II. A street. SCENE III. A room in Capulet's house. SCENE IV. A street. SCENE V. A hall in Capulet's house. ACT II ACT III ACT IV ACT V About the Play Feedback			Search: All the plays Hamlet Coriolanus Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Richard II Richard III Titus Andronicus Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry the Fifth Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry VIII King John Pericles Troilus and Cressida All's Well... As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline A Midsummer... Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives... Much Ado about Nothing The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night The Taming of... The Tempest The Two Gentlemen... The Winter's Tale    for: 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. 5     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, 10    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. Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene