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The opening sonnet from Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare fails to give a spoiler alert to his audience! One of these lines perplexes me: did the original performance really last only 2 hours?! Was it a heavily cut version or did they race through the lines? This begins a new series, in which I am going to read the famous passages from Romeo and Juliet. Be sure to subscribe to the channel and click the 'notification' button so you don't miss the next video. Comment your thoughts, give a 'like', and share the video! Arthur x

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
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.

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