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?
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“These violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triumph die, like fire and powder,Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honeyIs loathsome in his own deliciousnessAnd in the taste confounds the appetite.Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.””
— William Shakespeare
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,My love as deep; the more I give to thee,The more I have, for both are infinite.””
— William Shakespeare
“Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.””
— William Shakespeare
“thus with a kiss I die””
— William Shakespeare
“Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.””
— William Shakespeare
“Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.””
— William Shakespeare
“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.””
— William Shakespeare
“Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.””
— William Shakespeare
“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)””
— William Shakespeare
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