Romeo And Juliet In 5 Minutes
Romeo And Juliet In 5 Minutes
Get the tissues ready, this is going to escalate quickly!
Get the tissues ready, this is going to escalate quickly!
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Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene....
The Capulets
Hey Montague! Thou art like a toad; ugly and venomous!
The Montagues
And thou art unfit for any place but hell!
The Prince of Verona
Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,
profaners of this neighbour-stained steel!
Angry Verona Citizen
Clubs, bills, and partisans! Strike! Beat them down!
Down with the Capulets! Down with the Montagues!
Lady Montague
O hey, where is Romeo? Saw you him to-day?
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Enter Romeo!
Romeo
Benvolio
What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? In love again? Who is it this time?
Romeo
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Now to a hall in the Capulet house...
Juliet
Oh hey...
Romeo
Romeo
Benvolio! Is she a Capulet?
Benvolio
Indeed....
Romeo
Juliet
Nurse! Nurse! What is yond gentleman?
Nurse
His name is Romeo, and a Montague; the only son of your great enemy!
Juliet
My only love sprung from my only hate!
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Now to a lane by the wall of Capulet's orchard...
Romeo
Love, love, love...
Mercutio
Romeo! Madman! Lover!
Romeo
Whaaaa?
Benvolio
Blind is his love and best befits the dark!
Romeo
Juliet... Juliet...Juliet....
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To Capulet's orchard. Enter Romeo, Juliet appears above at a window...
Juliet
Romeo
What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon!
Romeo
O, that I were a glove upon that hand,
that I might touch that cheek!
Juliet
O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou 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!
Romeo
I take thee at thy word:
call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;
henceforth I never will be Romeo.
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Friar Laurence's cell: Enter Friar Lawrence, Romeo and Juliet
Friar Laurence
So smile the heavens upon this holy act!
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Romeo
Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy
be heap'd like mine and that thy skill be more
to blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath
this neighbour air, and let rich music's tongue
unfold the imagined happiness that both
receive in either by this dear encounter!
Juliet
My true love is grown to such excess!
Friar Laurence
I now pronounce you man and wife!
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The next day, Romeo and Tybalt (Juliet's cousin) fight.
Tybalt
Thou art a villain!
Romeo
Dude....
Tybalt
Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries
that thou hast done me!
Romeo
What....the....
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They fight!
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Romeo kills Tybalt.
Romeo
Shit...
Nurse
He's dead, he's dead, he's dead! Juliet! Romeo killed thy cousin, Tybalt!
Juliet
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Now to Friar Lawrence's cell. Enter Romeo.
Friar Laurence
Thou art wedded to calamity! You must flee!
Romeo
But Juliet....my love, Juliet! How can I abandon my Juliet?
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Enter Juliet's nurse...
Nurse
Romeo! Thy lady, Juliet, must see you before you flee! My lord, I'll tell my lady you will come.
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Romeo and Juliet in Capulet's orchard...
Romeo
Farewell, farewell! One kiss, and I'll descend.. I must flee! Farewell, farwell my love, my sun, my moon, my light! My Juliet!
Juliet
O think'st thou we shall ever meet again?
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Juliet's father now tells Paris he may marry Juliet in three days, and Lady Capulet brings the news to Juliet, who has just bid Romeo a hasty farewell. Juliet refuses to marry Paris!
Paris
Hey babe...
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Things escalate quickly...
Juliet
I'd rather die than marry him!
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Juliet goes to Friar Lawrence for help...
Juliet
Help!
Friar Laurence
Ah, Juliet, I already know thy grief;
It strains me past the compass of my wits...
Friar Laurence
But I have an idea...
Friar Laurence
Take thou this vial, being then in bed,
and this distilled liquor drink thou off;
when presently through all thy veins shall run,
a cold and drowsy humour, for no pulse....
No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;
the roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade
and in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death
thou shalt continue two and forty hours,
and then awake as from a pleasant sleep!
Juliet
Huh?
Friar Laurence
Drink this. They will think you have died, bury you in a vault and then Romeo can come to you!
Juliet
Give me, give me!
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Later that night...
Juliet
Nurse
Lady! lady! lady!
Alas, alas! Help, help! my lady's dead!
O, well-a-day, that ever I was born!
Some aqua vitae, ho! My lord! my lady!
Nurse
Lady Capulet
O me, O me! My child, my only life,
Revive, look up, or I will die with thee!
Help, help! Call help!
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Friar Lawrence plans to write Romeo and explain Juliet's faked death. However someone has already told Romeo that Juliet is dead.
Romeo
Romeo
I vow lie to dead next to her! I must die too!
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Romeo obtains a poison from an apothecary. Romeo goes to Juliet’s tomb to mourn her, and encounters Paris...
Romeo
You bastard!
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They fight!
Paris
O, I am slain!
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Romeo drinks the poison....
Romeo
Here's to my love!
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Juliet wakes...
Juliet
Where is my Romeo?
Juliet
Dead! My Romeo drunk all the poison, and left no friendly drop! Oh Romeo!
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Separated in life, Juliet is determined to be united in death...
Juliet
O happy dagger!
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The End.
The Prince of Verona
For never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo!