Romeo and Juliet
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Page from First Folio, 1623First performance
1596
Literature form
Play
Genres
Tragedy
Writing language
English
Author's country
England
Length
Five acts, 3,099 lines, approx. 24,000 words
Notable lines
Gregory, on my word we'll not carry coals.
— First line
Adversity’s sweet milk, philosophy
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Tis but thy name that is my enemy; —
Thou art thyself though, not a Montague.
What's Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? That which we call a rose,
By any other name would smell as sweet....
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
Young men's love then lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.
A plague o' both the houses!
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished:
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
— Last lines
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