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Summary of the Act I Prologue. In the ‘Act I Prologue’ by William Shakespeare the chorus provides the reader with information about the setting, the “Two households” that the play hinges around and the “new mutiny” that stimulates the action. The prologue alludes to the end of the play in which both Romeo and Juliet lost their lives.
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes. A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; Whole misadventured piteous overthrows. Do with their death bury their parents' strife. The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, And the continuance of their parents' rage,
ROMEO & JULIET ACT 1 PROLOGUE. 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-cross’d lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows.
Their death will cause the Montagues and Capulets to finally end their feud. A more in-depth analysis of the Romeo and Juliet death scene reveals the details of the double suicide where the star-crossed lovers die in the Capulet tomb. "From forth the fatal loins of these two foes". These two enemies bore children.
ROMEO AND JULIET Directions: Read the Prologue and the translation. Then answer the questions that follow. Act 1, Prologue PROLOGUE 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
PROLOGUE 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
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, nought could remove —. Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
