Romeo Und Juliette
1597
Romeo Und Juliette
1597
Translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
Two teenagers. One night. A city that wants them dead. Shakespeare invented the idea of young love as we know it: that blinding, desperate certainty that you would rather die than be kept apart. When Romeo and Juliet meet at a Capulet ball, they have no idea they're from warring families whose streets run red with each other's blood. Within twenty-four hours, they are married in secret. Within a week, they are both dead. What makes this play detonate across centuries is its furious contradiction. The language is lyrical, tender, the most beautiful ever written about wanting someone. The world around it is brutal, stupid, and consumed by a feud so ancient no one remembers what started it. The tragedy isn't just that they die. It's that the adults who should protect them become the engine of their destruction. Every generation discovers this play fresh because every generation feels it: that terror and joy of loving someone your world forbids you to touch.
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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
