Romeo & Juliet act 2 Scene 4 summary
Characters: Mertcutio, Benvolio, Romeo, Nurse, Peter,
Place: A street in Verona
Time: ?
Summary: Mertcutio and the others are talking, telling Romeo about how angry Tybalt still is for coming to the party, when the Nurse comes in to talk to Romeo about the wedding. They organise to hang some cords from Juliet’s bedroom
Romeo & Juliet Prologue
Two households both alike in dignity,
Two households are both alike in status and wealth.
In fair Verona (where we lay our scene),
The play/book was set in Verona and this is where everything will take place.
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
An old grudge is coming back
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean,
People of the city are fighting against each other while still in the same area
A pair of star crossed lovers take their life;
A couple take each others or their own lives
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
From when the two lovers were born they were going to die
Who’s misadventures piteous overthrows
Something went wrong in the process of the story?
Do with their death bury their parents strife.
Romeo and Juliet’s parents troubles are ended when the lovers die
The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love,
This means that their story is already planned that they are going to die
And the continuance of their parents rag,
The two families continued to hate against each other
Which, but their children’s end nought could remove,
The two lovers could not end the anger between the two families.
Is now the two hour’s traffic of our stage;
The play is going to be explained in two hours
If which you with patient ears attend,
The narrator is telling the audience to listen carful to the play
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
The narrator is saying that if you did not understand anything the actors will try and act/explain the story
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