Romeo En Julia
1597

Romeo En Julia
1597
Translated by L. A. J. (Leendert Alexander Johannes) Burgersdijk
Two teenagers. One city. A hatred older than memory. In Verona's sweltering streets, the Montague and Capulet families tear each other apart with casual violence while their children meet by chance at a masquerade ball and fall instantly, catastrophically in love. What follows is a breathless courtship conducted in secret, weddings whispered in candlelit chambers, and a cascade of misunderstandings so cruel they annihilate everything beautiful. Shakespeare's language burns through the tragedy like fire through dry wood, making the young lovers' passion feel not foolish but genuinely transcendent. Nearly 430 years later, this still cuts because it is not really about romance. It is about how hate murders the innocent and how the old destroy the young. It is for anyone who has ever believed that love might be stronger than the walls built around it.
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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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