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Star-Crossed center stage Star-Crossed LoThe Most Excellent and Lamentablve Tragedy of Rome eo and Juliet By William Shakespeare • Adapted by Bryon Cahill • Illustrations by Craig Phillips PROLOGUE SCENE 1 Characters Two households, both alike Narrator 1: In Verona, Italy, (main characters in green ) in dignity, Sampson and Gregory Capulet are Prologue reader In fair Verona, where we lay taking a stroll. They are armed with our scene, swords and looking for a fight. Narrators 1, 2, 3 From ancient grudge break to Sampson Capulet: I hate all Sampson Capulet new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil Montagues and would gladly strike Gregory Capulet hands unclean. them down like dogs! Abraham Montague From forth the fatal loins of Gregory Capulet: The quarrel is Tybalt Capulet , Juliet’s cousin these two foes between our masters and us their A pair of star-cross’d lovers take men. Benvolio Montague, Romeo’s their life; Narrator 2: Abraham and Balthasar cousin Whole misadventured piteous Montague can be seen coming Prince, the prince of overthrows Doth with their death bury their toward them. Verona, Italy parents’ strife. Gregory: Well, here’s your chance Romeo Montague The fearful passage of their for a fight. Draw your sword! death-mark’d love, Juliet Capulet Narrator 3: Gregory and Sampson And the continuance of their unsheathe their swords. Nurse, Juliet’s nurse parents’ rage, Lady Capulet, Juliet’s mother Which, but their children’s end, Sampson: Let’s make sure we have nought could remove, the law on our side. Let them begin Mercutio, Romeo’s friend and Is now the two hours’ traffic the quarrel. I will draw them into it the prince’s kinsman of our stage; by biting my thumb at them. They Lord Capulet, Juliet’s father The which if you with patient won’t be able to ignore the insult. ears attend Friar Laurence, a priest Narr 1: Abraham sees Sampson What here shall miss, our toil bite his thumb as he walks by. Lord Montague, Romeo’s father shall strive to mend. 4 READ February 9, 2007 Abraham Montague: Do you bite Benvolio: Tell me … who is it that Juliet Capulet: How now! SCENE 4 you love? Who calls? your thumb at us, sir? Narr 2: Romeo, Benvolio, and their Sampson: I do bite my thumb, sir. Romeo: It matters not, for she will Nurse: Your mother. good friend Mercutio stand on a not have my love. And I live dead Abraham: Do you bite your thumb Juliet: Madam, I am here. What is street outside the house as I live to tell it now. at us, sir? your will? of Capulet. Benvolio: Forget her, Romeo. Romeo: I dreamed a dream tonight. Sampson: No, sir, I do not bite Lady Capulet: Tell me, daughter my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my Romeo: O teach me how I should Juliet, how do you feel about Mercutio: And so did I. forget to think. thumb, sir. marriage? Romeo: Well, what was yours? Gregory: Benvolio: By giving your eyes Do you quarrel, sir? Juliet: It is an honor that I dream Mercutio: That dreamers often lie. Abraham: Quarrel, sir! No, sir. freedom and seeking out other not of. beauties. Romeo: In bed asleep, while they Sampson: If you do, sir, I will fight Lady Capulet: Well, think of do dream things true. Romeo: He that is struck blind marriage now. Ladies of esteem you. I am as good a man as you. Narr 3: Mercutio rambles on about cannot forget that precious treasure younger than you, here in Verona, Abraham: No better? dreams. At last, Romeo stops him. of his lost love. Farewell, Benvolio, are already mothers. I was your thou cannot teach me to forget. Narr 2: Sampson considers this mother at your age now. Juliet, the Romeo: Peace, peace, Mercutio, before answering. Narr 3: Romeo leaves sadly as valiant Paris seeks you for his love. peace! You speak of nothing. Sampson: Yes, better, sir. Benvolio watches him go. Mercutio: True, I talk of dreams, Abraham: You lie! which are the children of a lazy SCENE 2 ‘He that is struck brain. They are fantasies, nothing Narr 3: The four men engage in more. swordplay and fight in the street. Narr 1: The next day, Romeo and blind cannot Benvolio hear about a masquerade Benvolio: Come now. Let us put on Narr 1: Benvolio Montague comes ball that is to be held at the house forget that our masks and join the party. rushing in and breaks up the fight. of Capulet. Because the Capulets Romeo: I fear that fate hangs in the Narr 2: Tybalt Capulet enters and are the Montagues’ sworn enemies, precious treasure stars tonight. But let that fate steer challenges Benvolio. Benvolio persuades Romeo to crash of his lost love.’ my course and direct my sail! Tybalt Capulet: Turn thee, the party. Narr 1: They put on their masks Benvolio, and look upon thy death. Benvolio: With all the admired Nurse: Such a man, my lady! and head up the path to the house beauties of Verona, surely one or Benvolio Montague: I have no Lady Capulet: Verona’s summer of their enemy. two will catch your eye and make quarrel here. I do but keep the hath not such a flower. What say you forget about your lost love. By peace: Put up thy sword. you, Juliet? Can you love the the end of the evening, you will SCENE 5 Tybalt: You talk of peace! I hate the gentleman? He will be attending begin to look back on her as a crow Narr 2: As Romeo enters the word, just as I hate hell, all our party this very night, and I instead of a swan. Capulets’ house, his eye falls upon Montagues, and thee! would like you to engage him with Juliet. In an instant, he completely Romeo: I will go with you. But I do your beauty. Narr 3: Tybalt attacks Benvolio, for the disturbance of the peace! Romeo: Out of it, I’m afraid. not expect to rejoice. forgets the pain of his lost love. and once again swords are clashing Juliet: I’ll give him a look and see Narr 2: Everyone goes a separate Benvolio: I weep for thy good Romeo: (to himself) Did my heart in the street. More and more SCENE 3 whether I like him. Capulets, Montagues, and others way, for now. Benvolio lingers as he heart’s oppression, cousin. love till now? For I never saw true Narr 3: become involved, and the violence sees his cousin Romeo walking Romeo: Love is a smoke raised Narr 2: In the house of Capulet, A servant enters and beauty till this night. toward him. announces that the guests have rapidly escalates. with the fume of sighs. What else Lady Capulet asks her daughter’s Narr 3: Tybalt is standing close to nurse to call the girl. The nurse begun to arrive. Lady Capulet Narr 1: The prince of Verona is Benvolio: Good-morrow, cousin. is love but a madness most Romeo and hears his voice. He is does so, and Juliet enters. leaves to attend to them. called to the scene, and upon his Romeo Montague: Is the day so discreet? enraged that a Montague would arrival, the massive fight is finally young? Ay me! The sad hours seem Benvolio: I will walk you home, fair vocab Nurse: Go, girl, seek happy nights crash the party. broken up. long. cousin. to happy days. FUME: vapor, smoke Tybalt: Now, by the stock and Prince: Narr 1: Juliet follows after her If ever you disturb our Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo: I have lost myself. I am not ESTEEM : favorable opinion honor of my kin, I shall strike him streets again, your lives shall pay Romeo’s hours? Art thou in love? here. This is not Romeo. mother. dead. I hold it not a sin. 6 READ February 9, 2007 February 9, 2007 READ 7 Narr 1: Lord Capulet, the master Romeo: Have I given you my sin? Narr 2: Juliet appears in a window of the house, comes upon Tybalt Well, then, give me my sin again. high above the orchard. Romeo and stays his hand. Narr 2: He kisses her again. The looks on her lovingly as he speaks Tybalt: Uncle, this is a Montague, nurse calls for Juliet. softly to himself. our foe. He is a villain that has Nurse: Madam, your mother craves Romeo: But, soft! What light come here to spite us! a word with you. through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Lord Capulet: Leave it alone, Narr 3: Juliet hurries away and Arise, fair sun, and kill the jealous gentle Tybalt. He does not look as leaves Romeo with her nurse. if he means us any harm on this moon who is sick with grief, that night. In fact, he bears himself Romeo: Her mother? Who is her Juliet is a maid far more fair than like a gentleman. And I will not mother? she. O it is my lady! It is my love! have quarreling in my house! Nurse: Her mother is the lady of Narr 3: Juliet speaks to the wind, Respect me! the house. but Romeo cannot hear what she Tybalt: I’ll not endure him. Romeo: Is she a Capulet? Oh no! says. Capulet: I say that he shall be Narr 1: Benvolio finds Romeo and Romeo: She speaks, yet she says endured! Am I the master here, steals him away from the house. nothing? I am not bold enough to or are you? If you cannot endure answer her.
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