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