Romeo and Juliet

Name: Romeo and Juliet
Author: William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

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Dramatis Personae

Escalus, prince of Verona
Paris, a young nobleman, kinsman to the prince
Montague and Capulet, heads of houses at variance with each other
An old man, cousin to Capulet
Romeo, son of 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, Franciscan
Friar John, Franciscan
Balthasar, servant to Romeo
Sampson, servant to Capulet
Gregory, servant to Capulet
Peter, servant to Juliet’s nurse
Abraham, servant to Montague
An apothecary
Three musicians
Page to Paris; another page; an officer
Lady Montague, wife to Montague
Lady Capulet, wife to Capulet
Juliet, daughter to Capulet
Nurse to Juliet
Citizens of Verona; several men and women, relations to both houses; maskers, guards, watchmen, and attendants
Chorus

Scene: Verona; Mantua.

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;
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.

Act I

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Dramatis Personae

Escalus, prince of Verona

Paris, a young nobleman, kinsman to the prince

Montague and Capulet, heads of houses at variance with each other

An old man, cousin to Capulet

Romeo, son of 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, Franciscan

Friar John, Franciscan

Balthasar, servant to Romeo

Sampson, servant to Capulet

Gregory, servant to Capulet

Peter, servant to Juliet’s nurse

Abraham, servant to Montague

An apothecary

Three musicians

Page to Paris; another page; an officer

Lady Montague, wife to Montague

Lady Capulet, wife to Capulet

Juliet, daughter to Capulet

Nurse to Juliet

Citizens of Verona; several men and women, relations to both houses; maskers, guards, watchmen, and attendants

Chorus

Scene: Verona; Mantua.

Prologue

Altro di William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

You get a play that keeps changing its mind about love, from the quarrelling lovers in the forest to Bottom blundering through his amateur performance. The language is playful and slippery, and Puck gives the whole thing a mischievous sense that human beings are never quite in control.

All’s Well That Ends Well

Helena chases a man who plainly doesn't deserve her, and the play knows it, which is what makes it interesting. If you like your comedies uneasy, with a bed trick and an ending that only half convinces, this one will stick with you.

Antony and Cleopatra

These two aren't young lovers, they're middle-aged, vain, magnificent messes who keep wrecking empires over each other, and you half want to shake them. Stay for Enobarbus, the dry-eyed friend whose barge speech about Cleopatra is worth the whole play.