Romeo And Juliet
ByShakespere
Renaissance Italy, sunny, fertile and flourishing, is the setting for vibrant romance. Two teenagers meet one evening at a party and instantly are mutually entranced. Soon they are married by their priest.
But both have lived under the sway of arrogant, privileged men. Two leading houses are troubling Verona with competitive belligerence: Lord Capulet is Juliet’s father,
Lord Montague is Romeo’s. Their prince has demanded peace between the factions, and the old noblemen would be content with that; but the town’s swaggering, pugnacious youths, gentlemen and serving-men alike, persist in pointless strife.
When the rift suddenly escalates, Romeo is caught up in the turmoil. Friar Laurence proposes a scheme to free him, and the newlyweds enjoy one night together before the young husband must flee the city.
The temporally focused priest puts faith in the “powerful grace” of Nature’s “true qualities.” He believes earth’s living things all offer “some special good.” But he’s aware that nothing is so good but that, improperly used, it “revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse. Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied.”
Still, the monk thinks that “vice sometimes by action is dignified.” All around Juliet and Romeo, people have lost or abandoned their own better purposes. Consequences of using questionable means to serve defensible intentions multiply.
The bright, colorful scene darkens, fraught with sorrow, as Death stalks, threatening old and young alike.
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But both have lived under the sway of arrogant, privileged men. Two leading houses are troubling Verona with competitive belligerence: Lord Capulet is Juliet’s father,
Lord Montague is Romeo’s. Their prince has demanded peace between the factions, and the old noblemen would be content with that; but the town’s swaggering, pugnacious youths, gentlemen and serving-men alike, persist in pointless strife.
When the rift suddenly escalates, Romeo is caught up in the turmoil. Friar Laurence proposes a scheme to free him, and the newlyweds enjoy one night together before the young husband must flee the city.
The temporally focused priest puts faith in the “powerful grace” of Nature’s “true qualities.” He believes earth’s living things all offer “some special good.” But he’s aware that nothing is so good but that, improperly used, it “revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse. Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied.”
Still, the monk thinks that “vice sometimes by action is dignified.” All around Juliet and Romeo, people have lost or abandoned their own better purposes. Consequences of using questionable means to serve defensible intentions multiply.
The bright, colorful scene darkens, fraught with sorrow, as Death stalks, threatening old and young alike.
Read it online by clicking here
To download it for free:
In Microsoft Word format (.doc), click here
In portable document format (.pdf), click here
In Web browsers’ hypertext markup language (.html),
click here
In rich text format (.rtf), click here
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