Two rich families from Verona begin an old feud again. Two children from these families fall in love.Their love is doomed from the start. This is the story of that sad romance.

ACT 1 – PROLOGUE

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I can fi ght any Montague,

Gregory!Can you fi ght the Montague women,

Sampson!

I‛ll fi ght either... men

or women!

The argument between the Capulets

and the Montagues also concerns us,

their men.

SAMPSON AND GREGORY WERE SERVANTS TO THE CAPULET FAMILY.

MARKET PLACE IN VERONA.

ACT 1 – SCENE 1 AT THE

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JUST THEN, THE FIGHT WAS INTERRUPTED BY BENVOLIO, WHO WAS A MEMBER OF THE MONTAGUE FAMILY.

THEY WERE STILL BUSY IN CONVERSATION WHEN THEY SAW ABRAHAM AND BALTHASAR, WHO WERE

SERVANTS TO THE MONTAGUE FAMILY.

Stop fi ghting, you fools! Sheath your swords... you don‛t know what

you‛re doing!

No, I don‛t want a fi ght,

sir.If you do, I‛ll

give you one! My master is better

than yours!

Liar!

If a fi ght starts, I‛ll back you.

You mean, you‛ll turn your back and run!

Let them start it, then the law will be

on our side.

I‛ll frown at them as we pass,

and see how they take it.

Are you biting your thumb* at

us, sir?

Not at you, sir, but I‛m biting

my thumb!

*Biting one‛s thumb was an insult in 16th-century Italy.

Do you want a fi ght,

sir?

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JUST THEN, THE FIGHT WAS INTERRUPTED BY BENVOLIO, WHO WAS A MEMBER OF THE MONTAGUE FAMILY.

THEY WERE STILL BUSY IN CONVERSATION WHEN THEY SAW ABRAHAM AND BALTHASAR, WHO WERE

SERVANTS TO THE MONTAGUE FAMILY.

Stop fi ghting, you fools! Sheath your swords... you don‛t know what

you‛re doing!

No, I don‛t want a fi ght,

sir.If you do, I‛ll

give you one! My master is better

than yours!

Liar!

If a fi ght starts, I‛ll back you.

You mean, you‛ll turn your back and run!

Let them start it, then the law will be

on our side.

I‛ll frown at them as we pass,

and see how they take it.

Are you biting your thumb* at

us, sir?

Not at you, sir, but I‛m biting

my thumb!

*Biting one‛s thumb was an insult in 16th-century Italy.

Do you want a fi ght,

sir?

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THE NOISE SOON REACHED LORD AND LADY CAPULET.

LORD AND LADY MONTAGUE WERE ALSO AWARE OF THE FIGHT.

AND BEFORE LONG, THE FIGHT WAS JOINED BY TYBALT, WHO WAS A

MEMBER OF THE CAPULET FAMILY.

Capulet is a villain! Don‛t

hold me! Let go of me!

You will not stir a foot to look

for an enemy!

What noise is that? Give me a sword!

Someone should give you a crutch!

Why do you call for a sword?

My sword, I say! Old Montague has come, and waves

his sword to spite me.

Stop them! Stop the

Capulets and the Montagues! Break

them apart!

I hate the word ‘peace‛... just as I hate all Montagues!

Fight me, you coward!

Are you fi ghting with the servants, Benvolio? Turn to me, and see your

death!

I‛m just trying to keep the peace. Put

your sword away, and help me part these

fi ghting men!

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A story of ill-fated lovers whose untimely deaths unite two feuding families, Romeo and Juliet has become the archetype of young love destined to meet a tragic end.

The hatred between the House of the Capulets and the House of the Montagues is well known in Verona. Yet love blossoms between Romeo and Juliet. A brawl between the kinsmen of the Houses leads to Romeo’s exile, and from then on it is a series of misjudgments and chance - of time, place, and event that inexorably play out the lovers’ doom.

One of the most popular of Shakespeare’s plays, and one of his most performed, Romeo and Juliet is an enduring love story of emblematic proportions. Campfire’s adaptation seeks to bring this iconic work of Shakespeare to young readers in a language that is simple yet Shakespearean, and art that movingly recreates a tragic romance of 13th-century feudal Italy.