1. r
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prologue

2. rivalries & feuds
With 1 partner, you have five minutes to think of more famous feuds / rivalries than any other group in class.

3. rivalries & feuds Republicans vs. Democrats Yankees vs. Red Sox
Mac vs. PC
West Coast vs. East Coast Rappers
David Letterman vs. Jay Leno
Rosie O’Donnell vs. Donald Trump

4. r
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prologue

5. romeo & juliet
the
prologue

6. shakespearean sonnet A B C D E F G
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 hear shall miss, our toil shall strive to MEND.

7. shakespearean sonnet A B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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.

8. shakespearean sonnet ˘ / ˘ / ˘ / ˘ / ˘ / 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Two households, both alike in DIGNITY
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(In fair Verona, where we lay our SCENE),
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From ancient grudge break to new MUTINY,
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Where civil blood makes civil hands UNCLEAN. A B

9. translate
the
prologue

10. translate the prologue
DIRECTIONS:
Get with a partner and translate the prologue into modern-day English.
EXAMPLE:
Two households, both alike in DIGNITY
[There are 2 well-respected households]

11. translate the prologue1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
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 hear shall miss, our toil shall strive to END.

12. translate the prologue2 3 1 4 5 6 7 8 12 9 10 11 13 14
In the beautiful city of Verona (the setting of our story)
new fighting erupts from a long-lasting feud between
two well-respected families,
and the hands of citizens become guilty with blood.
From the households of two enemy families,
two fate-driven young lovers end their lives.
Their sad, hopeless adventures
end in death, which ends their parents’ fighting.
For the next two hours,
you will watch the story of their death-marked love
and their parents’ angry feud,
which would never have ended if the lovers didn’t die.
Listen now with patient ears;
we’re going to tell you the story.

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14. act 1 - scene 5 party A B C D E F G
If I profane with my unworthliest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much
Which mannerly devotion shows in this
For saints has hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch
And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss
Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
O then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do.
They pray: grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake.
Then move not while my prayer’s effect I take.

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prologue