![]() ![]() Shakespeare tells you the ending up front because he wants you to not just wait for the surprise, but to watch how it happens to them. Roger Ebert said, "It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it." The same goes for plays. People would see the play once, get the full effect, and then there would be no point in going again. If Shakespeare had depended on surprise for his plays to be enjoyable, you would never have heard of him. Surely revealing this at the start of the play kills of tension as the audience already knows Romeo and Juliet will die at the end? If so, what benefit was their for revealing this information at the start of the play? ![]() Shakespeare spoils the whole play, telling the audience the entire premise of two lovers meeting and that they eventually "take their life". What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. The which if you with patient ears attend, Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove, The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love,Īnd the continuance of their parents’ rage, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.įrom forth the fatal loins of these two foesĪ pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life ĭoth with their death bury their parents’ strife. In the Act 1 Prologue to the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare ![]()
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