Romeo and Juliet is a famously remarkable play composed by William Shakespeare round two lovers who end their family’s contention with one another with their death. This play was then made into a book. Based on the prologue of the Romeo and Juliet book:
“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 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.”
you can tell that this prologue gives us some general information about the key characters and where the play takes place.
What I understood from this prologue was that it depicts two respectable families in the city of Verona. These two families hold an “ancient grudge” against one another that remaining parts a major conflict. From these two families, two “star-crossed” lovers will show up. These lovers will patch the fight between their families with their death. The narrative of these two lovers, and of the terrible strife between their families, will be the subject of this book.
References:
“PROLOGUE.” PROLOGUE. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2015. <http://shakespeare.mit.edu/romeo_juliet/romeo_juliet.1.0.html>.
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