Romeo and Juliet Act 2 Scene 2 Line by Line Explanation
ROMEOHe jests at scars that never felt a wound. Enter Juliet above. ROMEOBut soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
love
Romeo and Juliet Act 2 Scene 1 Line by Line Explanation
Chorus: “Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie,” “And young affection gapes to be his heir.” “That fair for
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First Servingman Line 1-2:“Where’s Potpan that he helps not to take away? He shift a trencher? He scrape a trencher?”Explanation:The
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Enter Romeo, Mercutio, Benvolio, with five or six other Maskers, Torchbearers, and a Boy with a drum. (They enter the
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Enter Lady Capulet and Nurse. LADY CAPULET “Nurse, where’s my daughter? Call her forth to me.” Lady Capulet, Juliet’s mother,
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CAPULETBut Montague is bound as well as I, In penalty alike, and ’tis not hard, I think, For men so
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SAMPSON: “Gregory, on my word we’ll not carry coals.” GREGORY: “No, for then we should be colliers.” SAMPSON: “I mean,
Read MorePrologue of Julius Caesar Line-by-Line Explanation
THE PROLOGUE⌜Enter⌝ Chorus. 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.5 From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife. The fearful passage of their death-marked love10 And the continuance of their parents’ rage, Which, but their children’s end, naught 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.⌜Chorus exits. 1. “Two households, both alike in dignity” Explanation: This refers to two families in Verona— the Montagues and
Read MoreAct 4, Scene 2 of Julius Caesar Line-by-Line Explanation
BRUTUS:Stand ho! LUCILIUS:Give the word, ho, and stand! BRUTUS:What now, Lucilius, is Cassius near? LUCILIUS:He is at hand, and Pindarus
Read MoreBerlin by Joanna Murray-Smith Plot Summary
Joanna Murray-Smith’s play “Berlin” tells the story of Tom and Charlotte, a couple who come to Berlin on vacation. The
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