![]() Which but their children’s end nought could remove, The fearful passage of their death-marked love,Īnd the continuance of their parents’ rage, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.įrom forth the fatal loins of these two foesĪ pair of star-crossed lovers take their life ĭoth with their death bury their parents’ strife. When the audience at the Globe Theatre was all ready and settled to watch Master Shakespeare’s new play, Romeo and Juliet, the stage manager came out and delivered the following sonnet as a prologue: Two households, both alike in dignity, Here we examine what ‘Star crossed lovers’ means, and the context of the phrase within the play. ‘ Star crossed lovers’ is a phrase from Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet that has become particularly well known. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.Romeo's remark about death builds the tension - as if he's tempting fate. This is dramatic irony because the audience knows (from the prologue) that Romeo and Juliet must die. The idea that you should be judged solely on your own merit is a progressive idea for the setting and suggests that Juliet has a rebellious and modern streak. In her era, your name (the family that you come from) sets out how people view you. Here Juliet expresses a very modern idea of the time - 'Your name does not define you'. "What's in a name? that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet "- Juliet Shakespeare hints that Romeo having been consumed by his love of Juliet, is only making decisions from the heart suggesting that this is a dangerous thing to do. Here Friar Lawrence foreshadowes Romeo's foolishness later on in the play. "Being tasted, stays all senses with the heart"- Friar Lawrence The Nurse believes that Juliet is foolish and has chosen the wrong man but supports her anyway. The word "goose" is an Elizabethan term for a prostitute and so Mercutio displays more suxual word play suggesting that a relationship is physical to him rather than deep and emotional such as that of Juliet's and Romeo's. "Was I with you there for the goose?"- Mercutio ![]() "Rude will" and "grace" exist in all people and their fait is determined by these qualities. "Full soon the canker death eats up that plant"- Friar Lawrence Juliet is worried about having revealed her feelings too early on in the relationship and worries his feelings may not be sincere. ![]() "Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain, deny" - Juliet Or if he will not, she will deny her family to be with him. Shakespeare's use of the word "wherefore" shows Juliet questioning why Romeo is a Montague and she wants him to deny his family for her love. Deny thy father and refuse thy name"- Juliet "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo. Here Romeo is referring to Juliet's virginity, believing that unmarried women are sick and he is going to cure her. "Her vestal livery is but sick and green"- Romeo Romeo is making references to light suggesting that she is the light come to remove the darkness in his heart left by Rosaline. "Arise fair sun, and kill the envious moon," - Romeo
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