Prologue

Prologue (with dialogue by Edwina Moore)
"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 starcross'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 continuence of their parents' rage
which, but their childrens' end, naught could remove,
is now the two hour's traffic of our stage."