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 o'erthrows
Do with their deaths 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, nought 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.
Romeo and Juliet is a five act play.
All of Shakespeare's plays have five acts.
There are 5 acts not including the prologue.
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what was the date romeo and juliet was published?
Romeo and Juliet have a number of conversations in which Romeo can react to many things Juliet says. In other words, this cannot be answered unless it is more specific.
It is difficult to say. Most people have heard of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. They know the plays they studied in school. Many of them will not have any contact with Shakespeare after.
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy. Many people immediately think romance, and in fact it may be both, but the full title of the play is The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.
Two: Romeo and Juliet. They left out the deaths of Paris and Mrs. Montague.
There are six scenes in Act 2 of Romeo and Juliet.
Three Montagues are dead at the end of Romeo and Juliet: Mercutio, Tybalt, and Romeo.
It is true that the famous prologue does not appear in the Folio version of Romeo and Juliet. It does, however, appear in the Quarto versions of 1599, 1609 and 1622 in the form we know it, and in the first Quarto of 1597 in somewhat garbled form. In all of the Quarto versions, the Prologue is printed on a separate page before the play starts, and the printer may just have missed it when setting the type. I've included a link to a facsimile of Q2 so you can see what I mean. Since it is included in all Quarto versions of the plays, and the prologue to Act 2 is not omitted in the Folio, it's probably reasonable to assume that the omission of the general prologue is a printer's error, and was a genuine part of the play.