ROMEO & JULIET UNIT RESOURCES & MEDIA

THE PROLOGUE, ACT ONE [instructions for choral reading: read several times to yourself first; we will then read aloud in unison. We will perform various variations of the reading in class]

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 here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.


LESSON 2: 3D VIRTUAL TOUR OF 17TH CENTURY LONDON BEFORE THE GREAT FIRE