Prologue

Chorus
Alike in dignity
Equal in social respectability.
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:
Loins
Reproductive organs.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,
Take their life
Come into the world and their lives.
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life:
Misadventured
Unfortunate.
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Bury
Put to rest.
Doth, with their death, bury their parents strife.
Prologue
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Scene Synopsis

The Chorus sets the action in Verona, Italy, and informs the audience of the action of the tragic plot to follow.