...initial situation is explained to the audience by the prologue. The Chorus tells the audience in the Prologue: "Two households, both alike in dignity (In...to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean".5 In addition the chorus provides the reader or the viewer a foreshadowing on the actions...

...of all, we are presented the situation in this play's society, which is characterized by division: "Two households both alike in dignity, In fair Verona,...our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, ..." (1,0,1-3) In 1,1 we learn of the civil war fought between the families of the Montagues and of...

...farthingales, feathered caps, and curled wigs chanting in falsetto the theme of the evening: "Tivo households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona,...where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to neiv mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes...

...dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From civil broils broke into enmity, Whose civil war makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers took their life, Whose misadventures, piteous overthrows, Through the continuing...