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Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Two teenagers fall in love across a blood feud and burn through five days that end in a tomb. The original star-crossed lovers — and the play that made tragedy feel like poetry.

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Chapters
  1. Chapter 1Prologue
  2. Chapter 2Act 1, Scene 1 — A Public Place in Verona
  3. Chapter 3Act 1, Scene 2 — A Street
  4. Chapter 4Act 1, Scene 3 — A Room in Capulet's House
  5. Chapter 5Act 1, Scene 4 — A Street
  6. Chapter 6Act 1, Scene 5 — A Hall in Capulet's House
  7. Chapter 7Act 2, Scene 1 — Near Capulet's Garden
  8. Chapter 8Act 2, Scene 2 — Capulet's Garden
  9. Chapter 9Act 2, Scene 3 — Friar Lawrence's Cell
  10. Chapter 10Act 2, Scene 4 — A Street
  11. Chapter 11Act 2, Scene 5 — Capulet's Garden
  12. Chapter 12Act 2, Scene 6 — Friar Lawrence's Cell
  13. Chapter 13Act 3, Scene 1 — A Public Place
  14. Chapter 14Act 3, Scene 2 — A Room in Capulet's House
  15. Chapter 15Act 3, Scene 3 — Friar Lawrence's Cell
  16. Chapter 16Act 3, Scene 4 — A Room in Capulet's House
  17. Chapter 17Act 3, Scene 5 — Juliet's Chamber
  18. Chapter 18Act 4, Scene 1 — Friar Lawrence's Cell
  19. Chapter 19Act 4, Scene 2 — Hall in Capulet's House
  20. Chapter 20Act 4, Scene 3 — Juliet's Chamber
  21. Chapter 21Act 4, Scene 4 — Hall in Capulet's House
  22. Chapter 22Act 4, Scene 5 — Juliet's Chamber
  23. Chapter 23Act 5, Scene 1 — Mantua, a Street
  24. Chapter 24Act 5, Scene 2 — Friar Lawrence's Cell
  25. Chapter 25Act 5, Scene 3 — A Churchyard; the Capulets' Monument

Prologue

[Enter Chorus.]

CHORUS. 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 Doth 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’ traffic of our stage; The which, if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

[Exit.]