Lines for scene

ROMEO

But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? 2

It is the East, and Juliet is the sun. 3

It is my lady. O, it is my love! 10 

JULIET 

O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? 36 

Deny thy father and refuse thy name, 37 

Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, 38 

And I’ll no longer be a Capulet. 39 

ROMEO 

I take thee at thy word. 53

Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptized . 54 

JULIET 

My ears have yet not drunk a hundred words 63 

Of thy tongue’s uttering, yet I know the sound. 64 

Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague? 65 

ROMEO Neither, fair maid, if either thee dislike . 66

JULIET

O gentle Romeo, 98 

If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully. 99

In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond , 103

ROMEO 

Lady, by yonder blessèd moon I vow, 112 

That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops—113 

JULIET 

O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon, 114 

That monthly changes in her < circled > orb , 115 

Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. 116 

ROMEO 

What shall I swear by? 117 

JULIET 

Do not swear at all. 118 

Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, 119 

ROMEO If my heart’s dear love—122 

JULIET 

Well, do not swear. Although I joy in thee, 123 

I have no joy of this contract tonight. 124 

This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, 128 

May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. 129 

Good night, good night. As sweet repose and rest 130 

Come to thy heart as that within my breast. 131

ROMEO O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied? 132

JULIET What satisfaction canst thou have tonight? 133

ROMEO Th’ exchange of thy love’s faithful vow for mine. 134

JULIT

I hear some noise within. Dear love, adieu.—143

Stay but a little; I will come again. 145 < She exits. >

ROMEO O blessèd, blessèd night! I am afeard, 146 

Being in night, all this is but a dream, 147 

Too flattering sweet to be substantial . 148

JULIET Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed. 149 

Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow, 151

And all my fortunes at thy foot I’ll lay

And follow thee my < lord > throughout the world. 155

ROMEO So thrive my soul—163 

JULIET A thousand times good night. 164

ROMEO A thousand times the worse to want thy light.

JULIET Hist, Romeo, hist! O, for a falc’ner’s voice 169 

To lure this tassel-gentle back again! 170

ROMEO My < dear. > 179 

JULIET 

What o’clock tomorrow 180 

Shall I send to thee? 181 

ROMEO By the hour of nine. 182 

JULIET I will not fail. ’Tis twenty year till then. 183 

I have forgot why I did call thee back. 184

’Tis almost morning. I would have thee gone, 190

And yet no farther than a wanton’s bird, 191 

That lets it hop a little from his hand, 192 

Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves , 193 

And with a silken thread plucks it back again, 194 

So loving-jealous of his liberty. 195 

ROMEO I would I were thy bird. 196 

JULIET Sweet, so would I. 197 

That I shall say “Good night” till it be morrow . 201

ROMEO

Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast. 202 

Would I were sleep and peace so sweet to rest. 203 

Hence will I to my ghostly friar’s close cell, 204 

His help to crave, and my dear hap to tell. 205 

JULIET Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day. 

It was the nightingale , and not the lark, 2 

Believe me, love, it was the nightingale. 5 

ROMEO It was the lark , the herald of the morn, 6 

No nightingale. Look, love, what envious streaks 7 

Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. 8 

Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day 9 

Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops. 10 

I must be gone and live, or stay and die. 11 

JULIET Yond light is not daylight, I know it, I. 12 

It is some meteor that the sun < exhaled > 13 

Therefore stay yet. Thou need’st not to be gone. 16 

ROMEO Let me be ta’en; let me be put to death. 17 

I am content, so thou wilt have it so. 18 

I’ll say yon gray is not the morning’s eye ; 19 

’Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia’s brow . 20 

Nor that is not the lark whose notes do beat 21

The vaulty heaven so high above our heads. 22 

I have more care to stay than will to go. 23 

Come death and welcome. Juliet wills it so. 24 

How is ’t, my soul? Let’s talk. It is not day. 25 

JULIET It is, it is. Hie hence, begone, away! 26 

It is the lark that sings so out of tune, 27

Some say the lark makes sweet division . 29 

This doth not so, for she divideth us. 30 

O, now begone. More light and light it grows. 35 

ROMEO More light and light, more dark and dark our woes. 36

JULIET Then, window, let day in, and let life out. 41 

ROMEO Farewell, farewell. One kiss and I’ll descend. 42 

< They kiss, and Romeo descends. > 

JULIET Art thou gone so? Love, lord, ay husband, friend! 43 

I must hear from thee every day in the hour, 44 

For in a minute there are many days. 45 

O, by this count I shall be much in years 46 

Ere I again behold my Romeo. 47 

ROMEO Farewell. 48 

I will omit no opportunity 49

That may convey my greetings, love, to thee. 50 

JULIET O, think’st thou we shall ever meet again? 51 

ROMEO I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve 52 

For sweet discourses in our times to come. 53 

 

< JULIET > O God, I have an ill-divining soul! 54 

Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, 55 

As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. 56 

Either my eyesight fails or thou lookest pale. 57 

ROMEO And trust me, love, in my eye so do you. 58 

Dry sorrow drinks our blood . Adieu, adieu. 59

Desperation, the Killer of Love

Desperation, the Killer of Love

In this project, I am going to discuss the influences of desperation on Romeo and Juliet’s love. It is nearly a world-accepted notion that the love between them is so invulnerable that even death could not separate them apart. However, tasting the artwork carefully, I start to doubt that is their love really that strong and immutable? The answer should be various in different people’s interpretations, and for me, it turns to be “no”. The love between them was not affected by external factors such as the feud of their families but by the desperations of both Romeo and Juliet after the banishment of the bridegroom. Because both of the characters are young and impulsive, any incident could alter their emotions and lead to irrational actions.This analysis helps me to focus on the internal changes of both characters critically and understand the actual cause of the tragedy deeply.

I am going to stage two scene to prove my analysis. The first scene is Act2 Scene1, where Romeo and Juliet express their profound love to each other after they fall in love for the first time. They could hardly leave each other at that scene and promise to reunite as soon as possible. I will emphasize on how they are not willing to separate by letting Romeo stay alone under the balcony for a long time and letting Juliet run out for multiple times saying “goodbye” to Romeo. The second scene is also laid on the balcony, when Romeo is forced to leave Juliet because of the banishment. Compared to the first scene, this scene is totally lethargic. Although Juliet keeps to say that morning has not came yet and Romeo does not have to leave, she does not react as excited or hopeful as she does in the first scene. As for Romeo, he is completely hopeless. He flees quickly, without even a serious promise for Juliet. He does not think for Juliet or try to comfort her, but only worries about his banishment and feels the desperation of himself. 

These scenes only need two people to play, and I will be Juliet. Since I always read the play at the perspective of Juliet and combine my experience with the play, I seem to understand her feelings well. I always dream of being a girl like her, innocent, straightforward and brave. By acting this role, I could pretend to be this young lady and put myself into the character. It would be pretty easy for us to equally share the preparation process and the actual performance, and we would like to discuss and prepare everything together. The challenge for us is to make the scenes alive and emphasize on our thesis rather then just reciting the dialogue. 

I can't wait to start this project! Hope that we could finish it successfully!

Idea about the scenes

How the love changes between Romeo and Juliet- First balcony scene and the scene which Romeo flee from the scene.

Should Friar Lawrence be thanked or blamed- The wedding scene, how he comforts Romeo after the banish, how he helps Juliet to get rid of the marriage

The growth of Juliet- innocent: afraid to tell lady Capulet her real mind    Desperate: when knowing that Remeo is banished and her parents ask her to marry Paris      Brave: goes to friar Lawrence and drinks the poison.

Die in your arms

Norman Cousins has once said that “The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.” Believing not in fate or religious, I wholeheartedly accept the idea that although Romeo and Juliet’s death for love is miserable, it is in fact the best choice they make to protect their sacred love, much better than both of them living with dead hearts. Romeo and Juliet, two warriors of love, deserve a lot more better than an emphasizing on tragedy. Therefore, as the future Broadway Big Boss, my design of the last scene of play ROMEO AND JULIET will absolutely be refreshing and impressive, unprecedented and weepy( as well as the budget of the preparation). 

To start with, I would especially emphasize on the deaths of Romeo and Juliet by addressing multiple details. However, before the actual death, I would like to firstly stress the scene which Romeo uses “mattock and wrenching iron(5.2 22)” to force open the tomb. Being a grieved man who desperately wants to see the beloved woman of his life, Romeo should immediately knee down at the second he sees Juliet’s gravestone. Although he might use tools as he mentions to Balthasar before, he should eventually digging for the coffin by his hand, with murmuring and crying. Small amount of blood needs to drop from his hands, indicating how heartbreaking and anxious Romeo is. Furthermore, I want to exaggerate the pain and courage of both characters. In order to achieve this, I would like to keep Romeo alive for a while after he drank up the poison. When Juliet actually wakes up, she would find Romeo with breath but dying beside her. When Romeo realizes that Juliet is not died, everything was too late. He raise his right arm, trying to touch Juliet’s face for the last time but failed; he tries to say something with smile, but hip lips only tremble without making any sounds. Juliet then kissed him with tears, holding his hand and stabbing herself with Romeo’s dagger. Their faces are peaceful and satisfied, seems like that they have been holding each other’s hands from youth to senium, from sunrise to sunset. Nevertheless, they are forever young, and their love is forever strong as well.

Setting and costumes are really important factors of the success of my plan too. One of the most significant setting, the tomb, has to be put in an absolutely dark place. In order to achieve this, I would like to make the background totally black with a falcate bright moon on the top, suggesting the message that the ending is not “orbicular” but “fragmentary”. If possible, I would turn off all the light, only keep the moon and a light on the top of the tomb. As for the coffin, the texture and color must be looked like white marble, contrasting to the dark environment. The costume of Juliet would also be white, which indicates her innocence, braveness and loneness in the frightful darkness. After her suicide, the blood would blossom like a rose starts from the wound. The red rose which fills half of Juliet’s white dress, represents the love of Romeo and Juliet:Love is not only beautiful like the rose, but also requires blood and causes pain. 

In conclusion, it is never a easy task to make up a successful scene, which requires dozens of factors to make the stage powerful, believable, tragic and realistic. Furthermore, everyone would has a distinct image of a certain scene, just like what Shakespeare says: “There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's eyes.” The deaths of Romeo and Juliet are feats of great daring and symbols of the purest love. What are the deaths of Romeo and Juliet in your eyes?

Questions

Why Romeo did not get the letter from Friar Lawrence?

Who are killed in the play?

Where does Romeo get the poison?

How does Juliet die?

Why Friar Lawrence allowed Romeo and Juliet to get married?

Find the part which foreshadows the death.

What is the role of nurse?

What is the biggest turning point of this play?

Will Mercutio blame Romeo?

Which role do you think is the less important?

Is the tragedy inevitable?

Does Romeo and Juliet really love each other?

Scene act3 scene 5-A dispute in the Capulet Family

http://youtu.be/uqDzeEi6LTg

Julie, Ryan, Sofia

Broadway Big Boss😎

“Hey, hey come here!HERE!”

“Oh no no no go that way!!”

“I need a bed! A pink bed with lace!”

“Be angry! Angrier! Shout at me!”

“Oh my god, do not smile! Push me! Push her!”

If you see a crazy girl walking around the black box, yelling weird words and making the sacred auditorium a mess, do not be surprised. I am not trying to destroy the black box. On the contrary, I am on my way to become the best-ever director and performer of the world, although the route in front of me seems too long to be achieved. Well, who knows? Maybe you will see my name on the Broadway advertisements one day, and at that time, you have to pay for my tickets!Casting aside my day dream, directing a success scene is in fact building a house, which needs logical minds, ordered procedures and a creative head as mine. 

To start with, can you guess what is the groundwork of a scene? Gestures? Emotions? Settings? You are totally wrong! The base is the lines for characters! Only if the lines are decided, is the house able to stand firmly, rather than being blew away by a small flow of wind. How to choose the best lines is as important as creating the hardest concrete. My poor experience tells me to be logical, explicit and focused. In order to make the scene reasonable, every dialogue needs to be meaningful. For instance, the respond of Juliet to the insult “tallow face” would never be “thankful that you have”. The challenge of picking dialogues from original script is that I must always be clear-minded to choose the best and most representative sentences. Furthermore, if one word could express the whole meaning of a sentence, why should we need to waste time memorizing ten? Therefore, choosing the most significant and the strongest lines is the best way to increase the quality of the scene. When the lines are ready what should we build next?

Do you enjoy watching two radio communicating with each other? Absolutely not! Audiences want to see real people moving around the stage and using gestures to explain what is going on! Therefore, movements are extremely important since they are bricks to build up the house. Accuracy is highly required in the scene that even very small nuances may lead to tragedies. During the process of practicing our scene, I found it funny that when Ryan was trying to shake me, he stood either too close or too far,  and thus could not “wreak his anger” completely. I could not help laughing and our stage suddenly became a mess. I realize that although we could take a lot of impromptu actions, the basic movements need to be appropriate and certain, or the performs would become awkward and farfetched. 

Spending my whole energy preparing a three-minute scene, I feel that I may not have the gift to become a good director or actress. I am still sticking in the vortex of emotions:When is the correct time to smile? When should I cry or shout? Why is he laughing when insulting me? Trying to pull myself out of the confusing circle, I feel accumulating energies around me. During every piece of thinking, practicing and introspecting, the house gets higher and stronger. There might be some day, when I finish building the foundation—lines, the body—movements and the decoration—emotions, my achievement would become another Broadway. At that time, if you want to watch a show, tell the ticket seller my name, and they will definitely give you discount!

For our reunion tomorrow✨

The word “leaving”, carrying its sharp sword, little by little cuts my heart into pieces. Wind blows up the leaves, suddenly drugs them into the dusk. Oh, the twilight, why it comes this early; it should blossom a lot later, or it would rob my dear Romeo away from me immediately. 

It was the last evening for Romeo and me to enjoy the brilliant start shine, which I eagerly long for and wholeheartedly afraid of. I hope that he could remember me forever, remember how we met each other, how we fall into the river of love and how we spend our best youth under the witness of those perpetual stars. In the future, whenever he raises his head and looks up at the sky, he could reminiscent about this turf, reminiscent about me, who has devoted everything to loving him. I hope for the shiniest stars tonight so that we could keep our last memory splendid like firework, but I also hope for the eternal daylight so that the clock would never reach the second of his leaving. 

Look at him; look at the perfect man: his lips are gently moving, exhaling a scent of green tea bubble tea in Cheshire Coffee, where we straightforwardly expressed our love for the first time; his eyelashes are flickering like the wings of a butterfly, while tears, dew of the morning, are sparking at the corners of his eyes. He puts his coat on my shoulder, scolding me that I never know how to take care of myself. I listen carefully for the first time, not being a naughty princess who always like to make fun of him. He says a lot about how to look after myself, how to achieve my dream and how to control my emotion rather than be a dogmatic “princess”. I cannot help crying. For three years, I have already got used to his warmth, his caress, his circumspection and his accompany. But after today, everything will disappear. 

“Could you go to any college in the United States rather than Oxford in the United Kingdom?”I want to ask him this question for a thousand times, but I restrain myself for a thousand times. I might be his dream for three years, but Oxford is the dream for his entire life. I should become a supporter rather than a barrier, no matter what will happen in the future. 

“It’s time for checking in, and I shall leave. Take care of yourself and see you soon in some days.” He speaks softly like the first time we met.His hands are as warm as my quilts, and his smile is as bright as the sun. 

“Take care of yourself.” I speaks slowly like the first time we met. 

The earth is round, and those who we are eagerly missing for, would finally meet us again, just like the first time we met.

Death

“Death”, one of the world’s scariest words, has appeared in Act 3 Scene 3, diverting the entire play into a dark atmosphere. The appearance of “death” foreshadows the suicide of Romeo, the impulsive and extreme boy who regard his life as nothing in front of love. When Friar Lawrence comforts Romeo that banishment is “a gentler judgement(3.3 11), Romeo stats that “calling death ‘banished’, thou cutt’st my head off with a golden ax and smilest apron the stroke that murders me(3.3 22).” After an accident happens, the first thing Romeo could think about is death, rather than solutions for the problem. He is controlled by his emotion and losses his mind of thinking. Therefore, it is not hard for audience to understand why he kills himself immediately and causes the tragedy. However, the word death also show how solid the love is between Romeo and Juliet. They would rather die if they could not live with each others, which really demonstrate the vow on the wedding that “only death could separate us”. Not only Romeo, Juliet is also impetuous and straightforward that death seems to be the only solution for the problem. Therefore, the appearance of “death” foreshadows the world’s most horrible tragedy that they both kill themselves in a rush, in stead of waiting or thinking for a while. They are the death of themselves.

Night

Darkness

Gloomy

Scary

Ghost

Death

Quiet

Placid

Uncertainty

Nightmare

Sleep

Rest

Owl

Stars

Moon

Lover

Tryst

Party

The night wears dark coats hiding ghost inside

With wind pass by and baby starts to cry

Chain Reaction

Among all emotions, anger is the flake that ignites the gradually accumulated emotions such as sadness, disappointment or resentment. No one could easily control a set of fire, which could suddenly burn an entire house. A series of reaction would easily burns out insintricly in a second until our brain finally realize what's going on. 

All my memory of anger, in my lucid life, was about playing the piano and studying math. Although I finally got rid of the “annoying piano”, which I tend to enjoy now, my fight with math will never have an end. When I was in grade 8, math became incredibly difficult (a lot harder than pre-calculus). In order to help me get better grade, my irritable dad decided to tutor me in his own way, which I could hardly understand. I finally got mad on a Thursday night, which was already 11 O’clock and I just could not figure out the answer of a quadratic function problem. I suddenly stood up, threw away my pencil and started crying. In the next second, my father slapped me on my face. I could not remember how that day ended, but I just refused to talk with my dad and gave up studying math for a month. The test grade came out to be awful, and I started to wondering what to do.

Obviously I have got over this problem and became a math genius now; my father, to my surprise, gradually turns to be a patient and amiable man. Sometimes I am thinking that if we could communicate more when I was young,if we could both be more patience and understood each other more, I might become the world-best mathematician in the future.

The Catalyst of Tears.

How many times can you accept a tragedy if you already know it would happen? How many times can you bear to see a person die in the same stupid way? How many times can you prevent yourself from shouting out “Don’t do that!” when you know a certain action would lead to a horrible ending? How many times can you control yourself not to cry when the softest part of your heart is hurt? My answer is simple; my answer is “zero”. I cannot stand those situation above at all. Therefore, I have been tormented for ninety minutes before I start to write this blog post. I know that you might ask me why there are only ninety minutes since every ROMEO AND JULIET film tries to match the original play, which is approximately two hours. The answer is still simple: I did not want to watch the last thirty minutes and push myself into a state of insane.

The deepest impression always comes from the first time. This statement is totally true and works on myself well. Therefore, the ninety minutes’ experience becomes a “compare and contrast debate”. According to the omnipotent Internet, the executioner who nearly drives me crazy “is a 2013 British-Italian-Swiss romantic drama film adaptation of William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy of the same name directed by Carlo Carlei( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_%26_Juliet_(2013_film).” This film edits many of the dialogues, especially cutting Romeo’s ornament language which makes my time a little bit easier. The setting was exactly in old Verona, happening in the same time period of the original play. On the contrary, my first love is an energetic pop singer who stands under the sunshine of LA, confidently speaks Shakespeare’s strange language with his handsome face and hot body. 

Despite the extent which I am infatuated with my first love, I am attracted by a very specific person in the 2013 version. Don’t guess that my favorite character would be Romeo or Juliet! Look at Leonardo DiCaprio’s face, and you’ll understand that there won’t be any better Romeo in the world. The price of “The Most Moving Character” goes to Juliet’s Nurse. I bet that I will never forget her eyes, which could speak, could express care and could reflect a shadow of mother. In this film, I feel that Nurse is the person who loves Juliet the most. She conveys all her emotions exaggeratedly: When Juliet laugh, she laughs louder and kisses her at the forehead; when Juliet cries, she becomes more sad and hugs her for supporting; when she sees Juliet and Romeo kissing, she turns away with a titter. The Nurse wants Juliet to find true love, and is willing to help her in every situation, even speaks against her master to protect Juliet. Her lively actions make the film a lot more vivid.

In conclusion, although this film is not not my favorite, I have met the best Nurse ever. My tears suddenly crush out when she moves her small body in front of Capulet, and asks him not to shout at Juliet. If you want to see an original version of ROMEO AND JULIET, you should watch the most professional play; if you want to see best actors and most moving scene, you should watch the 1996 version(which is my favorite). However, if you want to feel the deepest love in the most indifferent family, I wholeheartedly recommend you to click on the link below and take care of your tears.

https://m.genvideos.org/watch?v=Romeo_and_Juliet_2013