Romeo and Juliet

 

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Romeo and Juliet can be very challenging to read. In order to help those who struggle, Ms. Siscone's 3rd period class has created this translation for you. Directions for Ms. Siscone's class are below.

 

When translating find the Act and Scene you are responsible for completing. Summarize what each character says in the scene, be sure to type the characters names out in your translations except Romeo and Juliet. There is no need to review major events in the scence, that is done in the books. Color everything Romeo says in BLUE and Juliet in PINK. Please read the translations of your classmates and if you feel something has been left out feel free to make changes.

 

ACT I. Scene 1

 

BY: MATT AND GORDO

 

 

Sampson: Gregory, we can’t be humiliated like this. I won't take their crap.

Gregory: No, because that would make us garbage men.

Sampson: If they make a move, I’m gonna fight right back.

Gregory: Maybe you should worry about yourself first.

Sampson: I don’t need to worry about myself; I fight like a beast when I'm angry.

Gregory: Yea, but it's hard to get you angry.

Sampson: Just one of the Montague’s dog's would get me mad.

Gregory: Yea, angry enough to chicken out. You’re too scared to fight.

Sampson: One dog will get me angry enough to fight. If I pass one of them on the street, I'll take the side closer to the wall and let him walk in the gutter.

Gregory: That means your the weak one because weaklings get pushed up against the wall.

Sampson: You're right, thats why girls get pushed up against walls; because they're weak. So what I will do is push the Montague men into the street and Montague women up against the wall.

Gregory: The fight is between our master and their servents.

Sampson: It's all the same. I will be a harsh master to them. After I fight the men, I will be nice to the women by cutting off their heads.

Gregory: Cutting off their heads? You mean thier Maidenheads?

Sampson: Cut off their heads, take their maidenheads, its all the same.

Gregory: *****TOO GRAPHIC*****

Sampson: *****TOO GRAPHIC*****

Gregory: Ok, big guy. Pull out your sword now here comes a Montague.

Sampson: Man I got already my sword out. I got your back son.

Gregory: How will you back me up-by turning your back and running away?

Sampson: Worry about yourself, not me.

Gregory: No seriously, I am worried about you.

Sampson: Lets not break the law by starting a fight. Lets them start something with us.

Gregory: I will give them dirty looks when they come by. They can do whatever they wish.

Sampson: You mean whatever they dare. I will flip them the bird.

Abram: Are you giving us the finger?

Sampson: Maybe, why?

Gregory: Tell me.

Sampson: I am not giving you the finger, I am just putting up my finger.

Gregory: Are you trying to start something, punk?

Abram: With you, no.

Sampson: If you wanna go, bring it on, you get the first hit.

Abram: But your tougher than me.

Sampson: Well then, back off young buck.

Gregory: Here comes one of my employers relatives.

Sampson: Yep.

Abram: Yea Right.

Sampson: Pull it out your swords if you aren't scared.

Benvolio: Yo, break it up kids, but your swords away, what the hell are you doing?

Tybalt: Why do you even wanna fight these punks? Watch your back Benvolio, look who is gonna kill you.

Benvolio: I'm only trying to help you out. Put away your swords.

Tybalt: What? Take out your sword then talk about peace? I hate all the Montagues including you, lets go dude.

Citizens: Use whatever you have, down with the Capulets and Montagues!!!

Capulet: Whats that noise, give me my sword.

Lady Capulet: A crutch, you need a crutch, why are you asking for a sword.

Capulet: I want my sword. Old Montague is here and he is waving his sword in the air just to piss me off.

Montague: Capulet you slob, don't stop me. Let me go.

Lady Montague: Don't you take one step towards the enemy!

Prince: You rebels! You men, you beasts who are out for blood. I will have you tortured if you don't surrender. This is the third time you guys started a riot. If you ever cause a disturbance on my street again you will pay dearly. Everyone else, leave. You, Capulet, come with me. Montague, meet me later. I will give you all one more warning, leave or die.

Montague: Who started this fight, anyway. Was it you, nephew?

Benviolo: Your people were fighting with my people so I pulled out my sword. Right after that hot head Tybalt showed up ready to fight. He taunted me and raised his sword in the air. As we were fighting a crowd started to form and the Prince came to break it up.

Lady Montague: Oh, wheres Romeo at.

Benviolo: I saw your son Romeo this morning taking a walk, I started following him, but he saw me so I had to hide. I figured he was avoiding me, and that was fine by me. So I peaced out.

Montague: He has gone there for many days, crying. But as soon as the sun rises Romeo comes home to escape the light. He locks himself in his bedroom. I can't cheer him up, I don't know what is wrong with him.

Benviolo: Uncle, do you know why he acts this way.

Montague: I dont know, he wont tell me.

Benviolo: Have you done everything you could to make him tell you?

Montague: I have tried, and so have others, but he keeps to himself. He dosen't want any friend but himself. If we could find out why he is sad, we could make him feel better.

Benviolo: Look, here he comes. Everyone be quiet.

Montague: I hope Romeo tells you whats wrong. Honey, lets get out of here.

Benviolo: Good morning cousin.

Romeo: Is it really morning?

Benviolo: Chea, it is only 9 a.m.

Romeo: Time goes be so slowly when you are sad.

Benviolo: What is making you so sad? Are you in love?

Romeo: Out of love. I love someone, but she dosent love me.

Benvolio: It sucks, love is such a good thing, but it can be really crappy sometimes.

Romeo: Whats sad is that love is supposed to be blind, but it still it still has control over you. Love is heavy and light, amazing and horrible, its everything but what is it. This is what i feel, through it is not returned. Are you laughing?

Benvolio: No, I'm crying.

Romeo: Why are you crying?

Benvolio: I'm crying because you are sad.

Romeo: Thats what love does. Your sadness just makes me more sad. Love is a wise form of madness. Goodbye Cousin.

Benvolio: Wait, I will come with you. Don't leave me here.

Romeo: This isn't Romeo, he is somewhere else now.

Benvolio: Who do you really love?

Romeo: Do you really think I should tell you?

Benvolio: Seriously tell just me.

Romeo: You wouldnt tell a sick man he "seriously" has to make his will, it would just make him worse. I love a woman.

Benvolio: I guessed that when you said you where in love.

Romeo: You got that right, she is beautiful.

Benvolio: Beautiful girls get taken the fastest.

Romeo: Your wrong about that, she refuses to be loved, she is a virgin. She ignores love, and doesn't give it up easy.

Benvolio: So she will be a virgin forever?

Romeo: Yep, and she is such a waste if I cant tap that.

Benvolio: Take my advice, move on, forget about her. She is worthless.

Romeo: How do I stop thinking about her?

Benvolio: I will show you, follow me.

 

ACT I. Scene 2

Enter Capulet, Count Paris, and Servingman

Capulet: But Montague needs to keep the peace and so do I, it's not hard, I think, for older men to keep the peace.

Paris: You both have an honorable reputation, and pity that you fought this long. But now what do you say?

Capulet: I'm saying what I have said before. My child is young. She isn't even fourteen yet. Let two more summers go by to let her mature and then we will see if she can be your bride.

Paris: There are girls younger than her that are happy mothers.

Capulet: And they married too soon. She's my only daughter and my only heir. But flirt with her, Paris, win her heart; she has a choice. She agreed, I will consent to her marrying someone that she has chosen. Tonight at the feast, where I have invited many guests that I love; and you among the others I have invited. At my house tonight, the stars will be the light. The young men will feel comfort among the herbs to inspire passion that you will recieve tonight. Listen to all, look at all, and pick who you want. When you look at all of the women, you might see my daughter to be just another in the crowd. Come here. (To the Servingman, giving him a list) Go look around through Verona, find these people and tell them they are invited to my house.

Capulet and Paris exit

Servingman: Find these people! Only people who are taught to read can read this. But I am sent to find these people, but I can't read. I must learn. Now!

Enter Benvolio and Romeo.

Benvolio: (to Romeo) Look at other girls, and Rosaline won't seem like anything.

Romeo:Your leaf is good for that

Benvolio: For what?

Romeo: Your cut on your shin

Benvolio: Why are you mad?

Romeo: I'm not, but I can't do anything - good evening

Servingman: Good evening. Please, can you read?

Romeo: Yes

Servingman: Maybe you memorized what you heard. Can you read what you see?

Romeo: If you know the letters you can read.

Servingman: You tell the truth. Thank you.

Romeo: Stay, I can read. (he reads the letter)

Signoir Martino and his wife and daughters,

County Anselme and his sisters,

Vitruvio's ex-wife,

Signoir Placentio and his neices,

Mercutio and his brother Valentine,

Uncle Capulet, his wife and daughters,

My neice Rosaline and Livia,

Signoir Valentio and his cousin Tybalt,

Lucio and Helena.

Good people. Where should they go?

Servingman: Up

Romeo: Where? To dinner?

Servingman: To our house.

Romeo: Whose house?

Servingman: My master's.

Romeo: I should have asked that before.

Servingman: Now without asking, my master is Capulet, and, if your not a Montague, you should come and have a drink. Bye. (He exits)

Benvolio: At Capulet's feast Rosaline will be there, and all of the other beautiful ladies in Verona. Go there, and look compare her to the other girls, and I'll show you that Rosaline is ugly compared to some of these girls.

Romeo: You're kidding. One more beautiful than Rosaline? The sun hasn't seen anything more beautiful than her.

Benvolio: But, you saw her with nobody else around, just her. You should see other girls against your Rosaline, and she will seem ugly compared to the others at this feast.

Romeo: I'll go, there's nothing to see, but to stare at my Rosaline.

ACT I. Scene 3

Lady Capulet: Nurse, where is my daughter? Get her for me.

Nurse: Juliet come here! Oh! Lamb! Oh! Sweetheart? God forbid. Where is she? Oh! Juliet!

Juliet Enters

Juliet: What now? Who's calling me?

Nurse: Your mother wants you.

Juliet: I'm right here. What do you want?

Lady Capulet: This is the matter. -- Nurse, can you leave us alone for awhile? We must talk in private.-- On second thought don't leave, you know my daughter very well, and have been with her for a long time.

Nurse: yes, since she was born.

Lady Capulet: She is not fourteen.

Nurse:I'll lay fourteen of my teeth (allas to my suffering I'll say I have only four) she's not fourteen. How long is it to Lammastide?

Lady Capulet: A little over two weeks.

Nurse: It doesn't matter, on the night of July 31 she will turn fourteen. Susan and her were at an age. Well, Susan is with God now; she was too good for me. But, as I was saying, On July 31 she will be 14. Marriage, I remember it very well. Since that disaster it's been 11 years, and she was weaned (I will never forget) of all the days of the year, that day I put a bitter-tasting flower to my chest sitting in the sun in the dovehouse under the wall my lord and you were in Mantua. I know what I'm doing. But, as I said, when it did taste the bitterness on the nipple of my chest, and felt it bitter, pretty fool. To see it become irritated with the flower. The dovehouse shook with the earthquake and since then she grew to stand by herself. She could run and waddle around. One day she cut her forehead and my husband (Bless him, he was a kind man) picked her up. "Oh," he said, "Did you fall on your face? Soon you will learn to fall back, when you learn more. Won't you Jule?" And by my holiness the pretty wretch left crying and said "Yes." What a joke it was! I promise that even if I live a thousand years I will never forget it. "Won't you Jule?" he said. And the pretty little fool stop crying and said "Ay."

Lady Capulet: Enough of this. I pray that you hold your peace.

Nurse: Yes, madam, yet I cannot help but laugh. To think she would leave crying and say "Ay."

And yet, I swear, she had a bump as big as a walnut. A dangerous bang and she cryed painfully. :Oh," my husband said. "Did you fall on your face? You will learn to fall back when you get older. Won't you Jule?" She stoped crying and said "Ay."

Juliet: And stoped crying too I hope.

Nurse: Peace I have. May god mark this with his grace, you were the prettiest baby that I ever nursed. I wish that I might live to see you married.

Lady Capulet: That "marry" is the very purpose of this disscussion. Tell me Juliet, what are your thoughts about getting married?

Juliet: It is an honor that I do not want.

Nurse: An honor? If I were your only nurse, I would say that I rubbed some wisdom onto you.

Lady Capulet: Start thinking about marriage. Here in Verona, respected ladies younger than you are already mothers. I was a mother at about your age. In short, the worthy Paris seeks you for his love.

Nurse: A man young lady-- lady, he is as man as the world -- why he is of perfect form.

Lady Capulet: Verona's summer does not have a flower as perfect as him.

Nurse: No, He is a flower, in truth, a very flower.

Lady Capulet: What do you say? Can you try to love him?

Tonight you will meet him at our feast. Look at his face and see the delight written there with beauty's pen. Look into his eyes and see his endless beauty. The beaty outside shows the beauty inside. He can share that glory when bound by marriage. You wiil share all that he has by marrying him and you yourself will become no less.

Nurse: No less? No, bigger. Women grow by men.

Lady Capulet: Decide quickly. Will you accept Paris's love?

Juliet: I'll try to like him, but I do know you that your consent is enough to force me to like him.

Enter Servingman

Servingman: Madame the guests are coming, the supper is ready, you called, my young lady asked for, the Nurse cursed in the pantry, and every thing is urgent. I must wait now. I ask you to follow immediately.

Lady Capulet: We will follow you. Juliet the offer stays.

Nurse: Go girl, seek happy days and nights.

 

 

ACT I. Scene 4

 

Romeo, Mercutio, and Benvolio enter dressed as maskers.

 

Romeo: What are we going to say is our excuse for being here, or should we just enter with out apologizing?

Benvolio: It's not cool to give long explanations, like we are not going to memorize a speech. We will let them judge us as they want, dance with them, and then get on our way.

Romeo: Give me a torch because I am too sad to dance, I will just carry the light.

Mercutio: Shut up Romeo. You have to dance

Romeo: I don't want to guys. I'm not wearing dancing shoes like you. By the way my heart is made of lead and it weighs me down.

Mercutio: You are a lover Romeo. Steal your friend's (Cupid's) wings, and fly higher then the normal men.

Romeo: He shot me with his arrow so now i will sink under the heavy weight of love.

Mercutio: If you sink then you will drag love down. It isn't good to drag down such a tender thing as love.

Romeo: I don't think love is tender. It's rough, rude, and hurts like a *&%$#.

Mercutio: If love plays rough with you, play rough with love. Give me a mask to cover my face and flaws.

 

They put on their masks.

 

Benvolio: Let's crash this party.

Romeo: Guys I don't want to dance. I will just hold the light for you and watch people dance.

Mercutio: You are nuts Romeo, open your mind and it will pull you from your depression. We are almost out of daylight.

Romeo: It's already night.

Mercutio: No. Not like that Romeo, our torches are burning out and we are wasting time.

Romeo: We are crazy if we are gonna go in.

Mercutio: Why?

Romeo: I had a dream last night.

Mercutio: So did I.

Romeo: OK, what was yours?

Mercutio: It said that dreamers often lie.

Romeo: Yes, they do lie. But they only "lie" in bed while dream bout the truth.

Mercutio: O, I guess you have been with Queen Mab.

Romeo: Whose that?

Mercutio: Shes the one in all of our dreams who seems to be real. ( Ramble on about different dreams sarcasticly in great detail, and pretty much nothing)

Romeo: Shut up, you don't know what you're talking about. You are not making sense.

Mercutio: True, I'm talking about dreams. Dreams are our brains playing silly imaginary games with us and are less predictable then the wind.

Benvolio: Damn it fools, Shut up. Dinner is over and we are going to get there to late.

Romeo: If anything we will get there too early. I think something bad is going to happen too our own lives. But I will do as you wish.. onward boys.

Benvolio: Beat the drum

 

 

 

 

 

ACT I. Scene 5

Serving-man 1(S1):Where is Potpan he is supposed to clean the dirty dishes. He is suposed to help clear the dishes.

serving-man 2(S2: Only a few men have good manners and they are dirty

S1:Take away the stools, the sideboards, and the plates. You, pal, save me a piece of marzipan, and if you love me, have the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell. Antony and Potpan!

Servingman 3(S3) : I'm ready man

S1:They're looking for you in the great chamber.

S3: We can't be in two places at once,Be quick for a while and let the one who lives the longest take everything.

(Capulet enters and his family)

Capulet(C):Welcome, gentlemen. The ladies who don't have corns on their toes will dance with you. My ladies, which of you will not want to dance now?Welcome, boys. There was a time when I could wear a mask over my eyes and charm a lady by whispering a story in her ear. That time is gone, gone, gone. You are welcome gentlemen. Come on, musicians, play music.

C's Cousin: must be like 30 years

C:No way it cant be that long.Lucentio's son is older than that, He's thirty years old.

C's Cousin: You cant tell me that he was a little one two years ago

Romeo:Who is the girl on the arm of that knight over there?

S1:idk my bff Jill

Romeo: Rambling about how Juliet stands out

Tybalt(T):I can tell by his voice that this man is a Montague. (to his PAGE) Get me my sword, boy.—What, does this peasant dare to come here with his face covered by a mask to sneer at and scorn our celebration? Now, by the honor of our family, I do not consider it a crime to kill him.

C:Whats going down, why are you so angry?

T: Uncle that is a Montague one of our enemies. He has come to anger us

C: is it Romeo?

T: Yea the villain romeo.

C: Chill out leave him alone.He behaves well and has a reputation for it. Im not going to insult him in my house even for all my money.Stop frowning be happy its a feast..

T: It's hard when someone who you hate is here. But I will not stand him

C: Boy I am you boss so you will stand him and you will not touch him.

T: But Uncle he be dissing us.

C:You are a dumb boy. Being like this will make us all pay.

T:All this is making me mad. I will leave but romeo will pay later.

 

 

R:(taking Juliet's hand) Your hand is a place where my hand is not good enough to be. But my lips are ready for a kiss.

Juliet(J): You dont give enough credit to your hand.By holding my hand you are being polite it is like a kiss of the palms.

R:don't saints and pilgrims have lips tool.

J:but saints dont move

R:then don't move while i pray.

He kisses her

My sin has been forgiven

J:Then my lips have taken that sin.

R: then give me my sin back

He kisses her again

J: You are a good kisser.

Nurse(N): Juliet you mom wants to speak to you.

R: Who is her mother.

N: Her mother is the lady of the house. A good lady of virtue.

R:Is she a Capulet oh i am in love with my enemy.

Benvolio(B): Lets go the fun part has past.

J: yes as i thought i am in so much trouble.

C: No don't go gentlemen there is still dessert.

 

J:Nurse who is that man.

N: he is the son of and heir of old Tiberio.

J:Who's the one who's going out the door right now?

N: That one, I think, is young Petruchio.

J:who is that one the one who wouldn't dance?

N: I dont know

J: go ask i think i would die than marry anyone else.

N: his name is Romeo the only son of your worst enemy a Montague.

J:The only man I love is the son of the only man I hate! I saw him too early without knowing who he was, and I found out who he was too late!

N: What's this?

J:Just a rhyme I learned from somebody

N:Right away, right away. Come, let's go. The strangers are all gone.