Romeo and Juliet Act I Scene I: Modern Translation with Annotations

Romeo and Juliet: Act I Scene I Original Modern Notes 1 THE PROLOGUE 1 THE PROLOGUE 2 [Enter Chorus.] 2 [The Chorus enters.] 3 CHORUS. 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. 3 CHORUS. Two households, equal in rank and honour, In fair Verona, where our story is set, From an old grudge erupt into fresh fighting, Where citizens’ blood stains citizens’ hands. 4 CHORUS. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life; Whose misadventur’d piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife. 4 CHORUS. From the doomed loins of these two enemies A pair of star-crossed lovers take their own lives; Whose unlucky and pitiful downfalls Do, by their deaths, bury their parents’ quarrel. 5 CHORUS. The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love, And the continuance of their parents’ rage, Which, but their children’s end, nough…