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Romeo and Juliet:
A Verse Translation
ISBN: 0-9752743-1-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-9752743-1-6
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Romeo and Juliet Prologue Translation
This excerpt shows how carefully the Enjoy Shakespeare translations recreate all of Shakespeare's effects. Shakespeare usually wrote in blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter). But for the prologue, he employed the sonnet form with an ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyming pattern. This translation maintains the sonnet form, rhyming wherever Shakespeare rhymed.
CHORUS
Two households, which in social standing match,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
Their ancient grudge is now a lawless clash,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
Brought from the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life;
And from their luckless fall compassion flows
To bury with their death their parents’ strife.
Their death-marked love pushed to its fearful end,
And the persistence of their parents’ rage,
Which nothing but their children’s death could mend,
Are now two hours of business on our stage;
And if you lend to us your patient ear,
What is not seen we strive to make appear.
[Exit]
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