Romeo and Juliet Prologue

Two households, both alike in dignity,

Two well respected families

In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,

The scene is in a city named Verona

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,

From an old wrongdoing to a new problem

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

Civilians start fights and get blood on their hands

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes

From their parents, these children were born to die together

A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;

Two lovers kill themselves

Whose misadventured piteous overthrows

Their adventures lead to bad things

Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.

They kill each other to end the grudge

The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love,

Their great love caused their deaths

And the continuance of their parents’ rage,

Their deaths did not end the family fued

Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove,

Only the childrens death could end their parents rage

Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;

This is what the 2 hour play is about

The which if you with patient ears attend,

If the audience listens well

What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

If you didn’t understand these words the play will show you what happened