Roméo Et Juliette: Tragédie
1597
Roméo Et Juliette: Tragédie
1597
Translated by François Guizot
Two teenagers. Two warring families. One fatal night in Verona. Shakespeare's immortal tragedy opens in the streets where Montague and Capulet servants trade blows and insults, establishing a city divided by ancient hatred. Into this combustible world steps Roméo, a dreamer mooning over a girl named Rosaline, and Juliette, thirteen years old and not yet betrothed to anyone but her father's choice. They meet at a masked ball. The famous balcony scene follows, those luminous exchanges where the young lovers conspire against the night, against their families, against fate itself. What unfolds is a cascade of misunderstandings, desperate decisions, and tragic timing. Friar Laurence's well-intentioned scheme collapses. The poison arrives seconds too late. And in the tomb, the audience is left with a question that has haunted this play for four centuries: is this a story about the cruelty of fate, the recklessness of youth, or simply the way love always burns brightest before it destroys?






































