A monologue from the play "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare

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About this Monologue

  • Character: Romeo
  • Gender: Male
  • Age Range(s): Teenager (13-19), Young Adult (20-35)
  • Type of monologue / Character is: In love, Descriptive
  • Type: Dramatic
  • Period: Renaissance
  • Genre: Tragedy
  • Description: Romeo sees Juliet at her window
  • Location: ACT II, Scene 2

Summary

In the city of Verona we find two quarreling families, the Montegues and the Capulets. Romeo belongs to the Montegue family and Juliet to the Capulets. In this first scene of the play a fight takes place between servants and kinsmen of the two families until the Prince of Verona stops them. Benvolio runs into his cousin Romeo who tells him he is in love with Rosaline who has sworn to live a life of chastity and therefore does not return her love. Benvolio advices him to forget about her but Romeo won't listen to him.

The Capulets throw a masquerade party at their house. Capulet, the father of the Capulet family ...

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Excerpt

ROMEO
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

[JULIET appears above at a window]

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou her maid art far more fair than she:
Be not her maid, since she is envious;
Her vestal livery is but sick and green
And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.
It is my lady, O, it is my love!
O, that she knew she were!
She speaks yet she says nothing: what of that?
Her eye discourses; I will answer it.
I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks:
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,
As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.
See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O, that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!



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