Romeo and Juliet E-Book

William Shakespeare

• Herausgeber: Pulp the Classics
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou.... Oh wait, he's hanging around in the garden again. Will young Romeo and his Juliet ever be able to express their raging hormones? Or will their feuding families make this romance blossom into a poisoned flower? Either way, both their houses are totally plagued!

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Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou… Oh wait, he’s hanging around in the garden again. Will young Romeo and his Juliet ever be able to express their raging hormones? Or will their feuding families make this romance blossom into a poisoned flower? Either way, both their houses are totally plagued!

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the ‘Bard of Avon’. His works consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

David Mann is an artist and illustrator who studied illustration at the Cambridge School of Art. He has previously illustrated for both publishers and corporate clients. He lives in Hertfordshire.

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Titles in this series

A Christmas Carol

Dubliners

Frankenstein

The Great Gatsby

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Othello

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Pride & Prejudice

Robinson Crusoe

Romeo and Juliet

Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Wuthering Heights

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

ESCALUS, Prince of Verona

PARIS, a young Count, kinsman to the Prince

MONTAGUE, head of a Veronese family at feud with the Capulets, father to Romeo

CAPULET, head of a Veronese family at feud with the Montagues, father to Juliet

ROMEO, son to Montague

TYBALT, nephew to Lady Capulet

MERCUTIO, kinsman to the Prince and friend to Romeo

BENVOLIO, nephew to Montague and friend to Romeo

TYBALT, nephew to Lady Capulet

FRIAR LAURENCE, Franciscan

FRIAR JOHN, Franciscan

BALTHASAR, servant to Romeo

ABRAM, servant to Montague

SAMPSON, servant to Capulet

GREGORY, servant to Capulet

PETER, servant to Juliet’s nurse

LADY MONTAGUE, wife to Montague

LADY CAPULET, wife to Capulet

JULIET, daughter to Capulet

NURSE, to Juliet

An Old Man, of the Capulet family

An Apothecary

Three Musicians

An Officer

Citizens of Verona; Gentlemen and Gentlewomen of both houses; Masquers, Torchbearers, Pages, Guards, Watchmen, Servants, and Attendants

CHORUS

CONTENTS

PROLOGUE

ACT I

Scene I Verona. A public place.

Scene II Verona. A street.

Scene III Verona. A room in Capulet’s house.

Scene IV Verona. A street.

Scene V Verona. A hall in Capulet’s house.

ACT II

Scene I Verona. A lane by the wall of Capulet’s orchard.

Scene II Verona. Capulet’s orchard.

Scene III Verona. Friar Laurence’s cell.

Scene IV Verona. A street.

Scene V Verona. Capulet’s orchard.

Scene VI Verona. Friar Laurence’s cell.

ACT III

Scene I Verona. A public place.

Scene II Verona. Capulet’s orchard.

Scene III Verona. Friar Laurence’s cell.

Scene IV Verona. A room in Capulet’s house.

Scene V Verona. Juliet’s chamber.

ACT IV

Scene I Verona. Friar Laurence’s cell.

Scene II Verona. Hall in Capulet’s house.

Scene III Verona. Juliet’s chamber.

Scene IV Verona. Hall in Capulet’s house.

Scene V Verona. Juliet’s chamber.

ACT V

Scene I Mantua. A street.

Scene II Verona. Friar Laurence’s cell.

Scene III Verona. A churchyard; in it a tomb belonging to the Capulets.

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PROLOGUE

Enter CHORUS.

CHORUS

Two households both alike in dignity

(In fair Verona, where we lay our scene)

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes

A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life,

Whose misadventur’d piteous overthrows

Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.

The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love

And the continuance of their parents’ rage,

Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove,

Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;

The which, if you with patient ears attend,

What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

Exit.

ACT I, SCENE I

Verona. A public place.

Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, with swords and bucklers, of the house of Capulet.

SAMPSON

Gregory, on my word we’ll not carry coals.

GREGORY

No, for then we should be colliers.

SAMPSON

I mean, and we be in choler, we’ll draw.

GREGORY

Ay, while you live, draw your neck out of collar.

SAMPSON

I strike quickly being moved.

GREGORY

But thou art not quickly moved to strike.

SAMPSON

A dog of the house of Montague moves me.

GREGORY

To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand: therefore if thou art moved thou runn’st away.

SAMPSON

A dog of that house shall move me to stand. I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague’s.

GREGORY

That shows thee a weak slave, for the weakest goes to the wall.

SAMPSON

’Tis true, and therefore women, being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the wall; therefore I will push Montague’s men from the wall, and thrust his maids to the wall.

GREGORY

The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.

SAMPSON

’Tis all one. I will show myself a tyrant: when

I have fought with the men I will be civil with the maids, I will cut off their heads.

GREGORY

The heads of the maids?

SAMPSON Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads; take it in what sense thou wilt.

GREGORY

They must take it in sense that feel it.

SAMPSON

Me they shall feel while I am able to stand, and ’tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh.

GREGORY ’Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been Poor John. Draw thy tool – here comes of the house of Montagues.

Enter two other servingmen, ABRAM and BALTHASAR.

SAMPSON

My naked weapon is out. Quarrel, I will back thee.

GREGORY

How, turn thy back and run?

SAMPSON

Fear me not.

GREGORY

No, marry! I fear thee!

SAMPSON

Let us take the law of our sides: let them begin.

GREGORY

I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as they list.

SAMPSON

Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them, which is disgrace to them if they bear it.

ABRAM

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

SAMPSON

I do bite my thumb, sir.

ABRAM

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

SAMPSON [aside to GREGORY]

Is the law of our side if I say ay?

GREGORY [aside to SAMPSON]

No.

SAMPSON

No sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but

I bite my thumb, sir.

GREGORY

Do you quarrel, sir?

ABRAM

Quarrel, sir? No, sir.

SAMPSON

But if you do, sir, I am for you. I serve as good a man as you.

ABRAM

No better.

SAMPSON

Well, sir.

Enter BENVOLIO.

GREGORY

Say ‘better’, here comes one of my master’s kinsmen.

SAMPSON

Yes, better, sir.

ABRAM

You lie.

SAMPSON

Draw if you be men. Gregory, remember thy washing blow.

[They fight.]

BENVOLIO

Part, fools, put up your swords, you know not what you do.

Enter TYBALT.

TYBALT

What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?

Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.

BENVOLIO

I do but keep the peace, put up thy sword,

Or manage it to part these men with me.

TYBALT

What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word,

As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee:

Have at thee, coward.

[They fight.]

Enter three or four Citizens with clubs or partisans.

CITIZENS

Clubs, bills and partisans! Strike! Beat them down!

Down with the Capulets! Down with the Montagues!

Enter old CAPULET in his gown, and LADY CAPULET.

CAPULET

What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!

LADY CAPULET

A crutch, a crutch! Why call you for a sword?

Enter old MONTAGUE and LADY MONTAGUE.

CAPULET

My sword, I say! Old Montague is come,

And flourishes his blade in spite of me.

MONTAGUE