Prologue discussion

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

1

This part goes over just how alike the Montague and Capulet families are. It tells the setting, and that people are going to kill people

2

This part talks about how the two families hate each other, and that this hatred sparks the relationship between Romeo and Juliet. It also says that the hatred only ends after the couple dies.

3

The last section is for humor, saying that if you bear with the actors, you just might be entertained.