[Enter Chorus.]
Chor.
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 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.
Movie trailer as Prologue (from Baz Luhrmann's 1998 movie: William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
View YouTube posting of the Prologue from Baz Luhrmann's 1996 movie: William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
View YouTube posting (1 of 15) from Franco Zeffirelli 1968 movie: Romeo and Juliet, which begins with the Prologue
View YouTube posting (1 of 12) from Renato Castellani's 1954 movie: Romeo and Juliet, which begins with the Prologue
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