Romeo and Juliet is a play by William Shakespeare[1], it tells the story of the star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet. The play is famous in Daventry.
Selected passages[]
- He jests at scars, but never felt a wound.
- But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
- It is east, and Juliet is the sun!
- Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow. - See! How she leans her cheek upon her hand:
O! that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek. - What is in a name? That which we call a rose
- by any other name would smell as sweet.
- This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,
- May prove beautieous flower when next we meet.
- O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art though Romeo?
- Deny thy father, and refuse thy name;
- Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
- And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
References[]
- ↑ King's Questions