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• Romeo and Juliet: Dramatis PersonÆ.
• Prologue.
• Act I.
• Scene I.—: Verona. a Public Place.
• Scene II.—: The Same. a Street.
• Scene III.—: The Same. a Room Incapulet’shouse.
• Scene IV.—: The Same. a Street.
• Scene V.—: The Same. a Hall Incapulet’shouse.
• Prologue.
• Act II.
• Scene I.—: Verona. a Lane By the Wall Ofcapulet’sorchard.
• Scene II.—: The Same.capulet’sorchard.
• Scene III.—: The Same.friar Laurence’scell.
• Scene IV.—: The Same. a Street.
• Scene V.—: The Same.capulet’sgarden.
• Scene VI.—: The Same.friar Laurence’scell.
• Act III.
• Scene I.—: Verona. a Public Place.
• Scene II.—: The Same.capulet’sorchard.
• Scene III.—: The Same.friar Laurence’scell.
• Scene IV.—: The Same. a Room Incapulet’shouse.
• Scene V.—: The Same.juliet’schamber.
• Act IV.
• Scene I.—: Verona.friar Laurence’scell.
• Scene II.—: The Same. Hall Incapulet’shouse.
• Scene III.—: The Same.juliet’schamber.
• Scene IV.—: The Same. Hall Incapulet’shouse.
• Scene V.—: The Same.juliet’schamber.
• Act V.
• Scene I.—: Mantua. a Street.
• Scene II.—: Verona.friar Laurence’scell.
• Scene III.—: The Same. a Churchyard; In It a Monument Belonging to Thecapulets.

PROLOGUE.

Enter Chorus.

Chor.

• 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 misadventur’d 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,
• Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove,
• Is now the two hours’ traffick of our stage;
• The which if you with patient ears attend,
• What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

[Exit.