Relacionar Columnas Prologue Pair-UpVersión en línea Match the lines from the Prologue to Shakespeare's Romeo+Juliet with the modern English translation. por Michelle Sueck 1 The fearful passage of their death-marked love, 2 From ancient grudge break to new mutiny 3 In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, 4 A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; 5 Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife. 6 The which if you with patient ears attend 7 Two households, both alike in dignity, 8 Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean 9 Whose misadventured piteous overthrows 10 Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage 11 From forth the fatal loins of these two foes 12 What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. 13 And the continuance of their parents’ rage, 14 Which, but their children’s end, naught could remove Their unfortunate, pitiful deaths Two equally respected families, you will see acted in the next two hours on our stage. Which nothing except their children’s deaths could end, the townspeople soil their hands with each other’s blood. If you will listen patiently, our play will fill in what is missing from the prologue. The sad story if their ill-fated love, bury their parents’ quarrel. Break out in renewed violence due to an old grudge. The son of one enemy and the daughter of the other, living in lovely Verona, where our play is set, and their parents continuing anger, victims of unfavorable fate, commit suicide.
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