FRIAR I will be brief, for my short date of breath Is not so long as is a tedious tale. Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet, And she, there dead, that Romeo’s faithful wife: I married them, and their stol’n marriage day Was Tybalt’s doomsday, whose untimely death […]
Continue ReadingFriar: let me tell you everything; it’s such a burden (5.3.223-228)
FRIAR I am the greatest, able to do least, Yet most suspected, as the time and place Doth make against me, of this direful murder; And here I stand both to impeach and purge Myself condemnèd and myself excused. PRINCE Then say at once what thou dost know in this. (5.3.223-228) […]
Continue ReadingPrince: we’re going to find out the truth, all of it (5.3.216-222)
PRINCE Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while, Till we can clear these ambiguities, And know their spring, their head, their true descent, And then will I be general of your woes, And lead you even to death. Mean time forbear, And let mischance be slave to patience. […]
Continue ReadingEnter Montague – alone (5.3.208-215)
Enter MONTAGUE. PRINCE Come, Montague, for thou art early up To see thy son and heir now early down. MONTAGUE Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight; Grief of my son’s exile hath stopped her breath. What further woe conspires against mine age? PRINCE Look and thou shalt see. [Montague […]
Continue ReadingA mis-sheathed dagger? (5.3.202-207)
[Capulet and Lady Capulet enter the tomb.] CAPULET O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds! This dagger hath mistane, for lo his house Is empty on the back of Montague, And it mis-sheathèd in my daughter’s bosom! LADY CAPULET O me, this sight of death is as a bell […]
Continue ReadingParis dead? Romeo dead? Juliet dead, again? (5.3.194-201)
PRINCE What fear is this which startles in your ears? CAPTAIN Sovereign, here lies the County Paris slain, And Romeo dead, and Juliet, dead before, Warm and new killed. PRINCE Search, seek, and know how this foul murder comes. CAPTAIN Here is a friar, and slaughtered Romeo’s man, With instruments upon them, […]
Continue ReadingEnter Prince, enter Capulets… (5.3.188-193)
Enter the PRINCE [with others]. PRINCE What misadventure is so early up, That calls our person from our morning rest? Enter Capels [CAPULET, LADY CAPULET] CAPULET What should it be that is so shrieked abroad? LADY CAPULET O, the people in the street cry ‘Romeo’, Some ‘Juliet’, and some ‘Paris’, and all run […]
Continue ReadingCaptain of the Watch: what’s happened here? (5.3.179-187)
CAPTAIN We see the ground whereon these woes do lie, But the true ground of all these piteous woes We cannot without circumstance descry. Enter [one of the Watch with] Romeo’s man [Balthasar]. SECOND WATCHMAN Here’s Romeo’s man, we found him in the churchyard. CAPTAIN Hold him in safety till the Prince come hither. […]
Continue ReadingEnter the Watch: a pitiful sight! (5.3.171-178)
Enter[Paris’s] Boy and WATCH. PAGE This is the place, there where the torch doth burn. CAPTAIN OF THE WATCH The ground is bloody, search about the churchyard. Go, some of you, whoe’er you find attach. [Exeunt some of the Watch.] [The Captain enters the tomb and returns.] Pitiful sight! here lies the […]
Continue ReadingJuliet: Let me die… (5.3.168-170)
CAPTAIN OF THE WATCH [Within] Lead, boy, which way? JULIET Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger, [Taking Romeo’s dagger.] This is thy sheath; [Stabs herself.] there rust, and let me die. [Falls on Romeo’s body and dies.] (5.3.168-170) (The stage directions are editorial in their placement. I […]
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