1. 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-crossed lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.
The fearful passage of their death-marked love
And the continuance of their parents’ rage,
Which, but their children’s end, naught 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.

2. My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me
That I must love a loathèd enemy.

3. Verona is
the home place of
Romeo and Juliet

4. Many years ago in Verona, Italy, there were two families.
“We are the Capulets.” “We are the Montagues
.” These families are always fighting. The Montagues have a son, Romeo. The Capulets have a daughter, Juliet.

5. The next day, Tybalt sees Romeo
The next day, Tybalt sees Romeo. He is still angry with Romeo and wants to fight him.
Romeo doesn’t want to fight but his best friend, Mercutio, does.
“If you won’t fight him, I will!” Mercutio fights Tybalt.
Tybalt kills Mercutio! Romeo is so upset he fights Tybalt and kills him too!

7. One night the Capulets have a party and Romeo goes.
He meets Juliet and they fall in love.

8. Romeo meets and falls in love with Juliet
Romeo meets and falls in love with Juliet. After the ball, in what is now called the "balcony scene", Romeo sneaks into the Capulet courtyard and overhears Juliet on her balcony vowing her love to him in spite of her family's hatred of the Montagues. Romeo makes himself known to her and they agree to be married.

9. Romeo and Juliet talk and decide to get married

10. Romeo secretly spends the night in Juliet's chamber,
where they consummate their marriage.

11. They know that their families will be very angry so they go to Friar Lawrence and are married in secret.

12. Juliet visits Friar Laurence for help, and he offers her a drug that will put her into a death-like coma for "two and forty hours". The Friar promises to send a messenger to inform Romeo of the plan, so that he can rejoin her when she awakens. On the night before the wedding, she takes the drug and, when discovered apparently dead, she is laid in the family crypt.

13. Juliet visits Friar Laurence for help, and he offers her a drug that will put her into a death-like coma for "two and forty hours". The Friar promises to send a messenger to inform Romeo of the plan, so that he can rejoin her when she awakens.

14. "For never was a story of
more woe than this of
Juliet and her Romeo."

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16. The families are reconciled by their children's deaths and agree to end their violent feud.