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Violence in ‘Romeo and Juliet’

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Extract 1 ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Act 1 Scene 1

Verona. A public place.(Sampson; Gregory; Abram; Balthasar; Benvolio; Tybalt; Citizens; Capulet; Lady Capulet; Montague; Lady Montague; Prince Escalus; Romeo)

Enter Sampson and Gregory, with swords and bucklers, of the house of Capulet.

SAMPSONGregory, on my word, we’ll not carry coals.

GREGORYNo, for then we should be colliers.

SAMPSONI mean, and we be in choler, we’ll draw.

GREGORYAy, while you live, draw your neck out of collar.

SAMPSONI strike quickly, being mov’d.

GREGORYBut thou art not quickly mov’d to strike.

SAMPSONA dog of the house of Montague moves me.

GREGORYTo move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if thou art mov’d, thou run’st away.

SAMPSONA dog of that house shall move me to stand! I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague’s.

GREGORYThat shows thee a weak slave, for the weakest goes to the wall.

SAMPSON’Tis true, and therefore women, being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the wall; therefore I will push Montague’s men from the wall, and thrust his maids to the wall.

GREGORYThe quarrel is between our masters, and us their men.

SAMPSON’Tis all one; I will show myself a tyrant: when I have fought with the men, I will be civil with the maids; I will cut off their heads.

GREGORYThe heads of the maids?

SAMPSONAy, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads, take it in what sense thou wilt.

GREGORYThey must take it in sense that feel it.

SAMPSONMe they shall feel while I am able to stand, and ’tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh.

GREGORY’Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor-John. Draw thy tool, here comes two of the house of Montagues.

Enter two other servingmen: Abram and Balthasar.

SAMPSONMy naked weapon is out. Quarrel, I will back thee.

GREGORYHow, turn thy back and run?

SAMPSONFear me not.

GREGORYNo, marry, I fear thee!

SAMPSONLet us take the law of our sides, let them begin.

GREGORYI will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as they list.

SAMPSONNay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them, which is disgrace to them if they bear it.

ABRAMDo you bite your thumb at us, sir?

SAMPSONI do bite my thumb, sir.

ABRAMDo you bite your thumb at us, sir?

SAMPSON

Aside to Gregory

Is the law of our side if I say ay?

GREGORY

Aside to Sampson

No.

SAMPSONNo, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir.

GREGORYDo you quarrel, sir?

ABRAMQuarrel, sir? No, sir.

SAMPSONBut if you do, sir, I am for you. I serve as good a man as you.

ABRAMNo better?

SAMPSONWell, sir.


Enter Benvolio.

GREGORYSay “better,” here comes one of my master’s kinsmen.

SAMPSONYes, better, sir.

ABRAMYou lie.

SAMPSONDraw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy washing blow.

They fight.

BENVOLIOPart, fools!Put up your swords, you know not what you do.

Beats down their swords.

Enter Tybalt.

TYBALTWhat, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.

BENVOLIOI do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword,Or manage it to part these men with me.

TYBALTWhat, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the wordAs I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.Have at thee, coward!

They fight.

Enter three or four Citizens with clubs or partisans.

CITIZENS OF VERONAClubs, bills, and partisans! Strike! Beat them down!Down with the Capulets! Down with the Montagues!

In context of the play


PRINCE

Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,

Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel,--

Will they not hear? What, ho! you men, you beasts,

That quench the fire of your pernicious rage

With purple fountains issuing from your veins,

On pain of torture, from those bloody hands

Throw your mistemper'd weapons to the ground,

And hear the sentence of your moved prince.

Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word,

By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,

Have thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets,

And made Verona's ancient citizens

Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments,

To wield old partisans, in hands as old,

Canker'd with peace, to part your canker'd hate:

If ever you disturb our streets again,

Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.

For this time, all the rest depart away:

You Capulet; shall go along with me:

And, Montague, come you this afternoon,

To know our further pleasure in this case,

To old Free-town, our common judgment-place.

Once more, on pain of death, all men depart.



ROMEOO, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!It seems she hangs upon the cheek of nightLike a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear;Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand,And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

TYBALTThis, by his voice, should be a Montague.Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slaveCome hither, cover'd with an antic face,To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?Now, by the stock and honour of my kin,To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin.

CAPULETWhy, how now, kinsman! wherefore storm you so?

TYBALTUncle, this is a Montague, our foe,A villain that is hither come in spite,To scorn at our solemnity this night.

CAPULETYoung Romeo is it?

TYBALT'Tis he, that villain Romeo.

CAPULETContent thee, gentle coz, let him alone;He bears him like a portly gentleman;And, to say truth, Verona brags of himTo be a virtuous and well-govern'd youth:I would not for the wealth of all the townHere in my house do him disparagement:Therefore be patient, take no note of him:It is my will, the which if thou respect,Show a fair presence and put off these frowns,And ill-beseeming semblance for a feast.

TYBALTIt fits, when such a villain is a guest:I'll not endure him.

CAPULETHe shall be endured:What, goodman boy! I say, he shall: go to;Am I the master here, or you? go to.You'll not endure him! God shall mend my soul!You'll make a mutiny among my guests!You will set cock-a-hoop! you'll be the man!

TYBALTWhy, uncle, 'tis a shame.



‘Here's much to do with hate, but more with love.

Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!

O any thing, of nothing first create!

O heavy lightness! serious vanity!

Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!

Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!

Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!

This love feel I, that feel no love in this.’


Extract 6 ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Act 2

A series of relevant quotations from Act 2

Act 2 Scene 2

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?

Deny thy father and refuse thy name;

Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,

And I'll no longer be a Capulet.

Act2 Scene 2

JULIETHow camest thou hither, tell me, and wherefore?

The orchard walls are high and hard to climb,

And the place death, considering who thou art,

If any of my kinsmen find thee here.

Act 2 Scene 2

JULIETIf they do see thee, they will murder thee.

ROMEOAlack, there lies more peril in thine eye

Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,

And I am proof against their enmity.

JULIETI would not for the world they saw thee here.

ROMEOI have night's cloak to hide me from their sight;

And but thou love me, let them find me here:

My life were better ended by their hate,

Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.


Act 2 Scene 4

BENVOLIOTybalt, the kinsman of old Capulet,

Hath sent a letter to his father's house.

MERCUTIOA challenge, on my life.

BENVOLIORomeo will answer it.

MERCUTIOAny man that can write may answer a letter.

BENVOLIONay, he will answer the letter's master, how he

dares, being dared.

MERCUTIOAlas poor Romeo! he is already dead; stabbed with a

white wench's black eye; shot through the ear with a

love-song; the very pin of his heart cleft with the

blind bow-boy's butt-shaft: and is he a man to

encounter Tybalt? BENVOLIOWhy, what is Tybalt?

MERCUTIOMore than prince of cats, I can tell you. O, he is

the courageous captain of compliments. He fights as

you sing prick-song, keeps time, distance, and

proportion; rests me his minim rest, one, two, and

the third in your bosom: the very butcher of a silk

button, a duellist, a duellist; a gentleman of the

very first house, of the first and second cause:

ah, the immortal passado! the punto reverso! the

hai!


A public place.

Enter MERCUTIO, BENVOLIO, Page, and ServantsBENVOLIOI pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire:The day is hot, the Capulets abroad,And, if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl;For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.MERCUTIOThou art like one of those fellows that when heenters the confines of a tavern claps me his swordupon the table and says 'God send me no need ofthee!' and by the operation of the second cup drawsit on the drawer, when indeed there is no need.BENVOLIOAm I like such a fellow?MERCUTIOCome, come, thou art as hot a Jack in thy mood asany in Italy, and as soon moved to be moody, and assoon moody to be moved.BENVOLIOAnd what to?MERCUTIONay, an there were two such, we should have noneshortly, for one would kill the other. Thou! why,thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more,or a hair less, in his beard, than thou hast: thouwilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having noother reason but because thou hast hazel eyes: whateye but such an eye would spy out such a quarrel?Thy head is as fun of quarrels as an egg is full ofmeat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle asan egg for quarrelling: thou hast quarrelled with aman for coughing in the street, because he hathwakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun:didst thou not fall out with a tailor for wearinghis new doublet before Easter? with another, fortying his new shoes with old riband? and yet thouwilt tutor me from quarrelling!



BENVOLIOWe talk here in the public haunt of men:Either withdraw unto some private place,And reason coldly of your grievances,Or else depart; here all eyes gaze on us.MERCUTIOMen's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze;I will not budge for no man's pleasure, I.

Enter ROMEO

TYBALTWell, peace be with you, sir: here comes my man.MERCUTIOBut I'll be hanged, sir, if he wear your livery:Marry, go before to field, he'll be your follower;Your worship in that sense may call him 'man.'TYBALTRomeo, the hate I bear thee can affordNo better term than this,--thou art a villain.ROMEOTybalt, the reason that I have to love theeDoth much excuse the appertaining rageTo such a greeting: villain am I none;Therefore farewell; I see thou know'st me not.TYBALTBoy, this shall not excuse the injuriesThat thou hast done me; therefore turn and draw.ROMEOI do protest, I never injured thee,But love thee better than thou canst devise,Till thou shalt know the reason of my love:And so, good Capulet,--which name I tenderAs dearly as my own,--be satisfied.MERCUTIOO calm, dishonourable, vile submission!Alla stoccata carries it away.

Draws

Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk?TYBALTWhat wouldst thou have with me?MERCUTIOGood king of cats, nothing but one of your ninelives; that I mean to make bold withal, and as youshall use me hereafter, drybeat the rest of theeight. Will you pluck your sword out of his pitcherby the ears? make haste, lest mine be about yourears ere it be out.TYBALTI am for you.

Drawing


ROMEOGentle Mercutio, put thy rapier up.MERCUTIOCome, sir, your passado.

They fight

ROMEODraw, Benvolio; beat down their weapons.Gentlemen, for shame, forbear this outrage!Tybalt, Mercutio, the prince expressly hathForbidden bandying in Verona streets:Hold, Tybalt! good Mercutio!

TYBALT under ROMEO's arm stabs MERCUTIO, and flies with his followers


MERCUTIOI am hurt.A plague o' both your houses! I am sped.Is he gone, and hath nothing?BENVOLIOWhat, art thou hurt?MERCUTIOAy, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, 'tis enough.Where is my page? Go, villain, fetch a surgeon.

Exit Page

ROMEOCourage, man; the hurt cannot be much.MERCUTIONo, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as achurch-door; but 'tis enough,'twill serve: ask forme to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. Iam peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o'both your houses! 'Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, acat, to scratch a man to death! a braggart, arogue, a villain, that fights by the book ofarithmetic! Why the devil came you between us? Iwas hurt under your arm.ROMEOI thought all for the best.MERCUTIOHelp me into some house, Benvolio,Or I shall faint. A plague o' both your houses!They have made worms' meat of me: I have it,And soundly too: your houses!

Exeunt MERCUTIO and BENVOLIO

ROMEOThis gentleman, the prince's near ally,My very friend, hath got his mortal hurtIn my behalf; my reputation stain'dWith Tybalt's slander,--Tybalt, that an hourHath been my kinsman! O sweet Juliet,Thy beauty hath made me effeminateAnd in my temper soften'd valour's steel!

Re-enter BENVOLIO

BENVOLIOO Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio's dead!That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds,Which too untimely here did scorn the earth.ROMEOThis day's black fate on more days doth depend;This but begins the woe, others must end.



BENVOLIOHere comes the furious Tybalt back again.ROMEOAlive, in triumph! and Mercutio slain!Away to heaven, respective lenity,And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!

Re-enter TYBALT

Now, Tybalt, take the villain back again,That late thou gavest me; for Mercutio's soulIs but a little way above our heads,Staying for thine to keep him company:Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.TYBALTThou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here,Shalt with him hence.ROMEOThis shall determine that.

They fight; TYBALT falls

BENVOLIORomeo, away, be gone!The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain.Stand not amazed: the prince will doom thee death,If thou art taken: hence, be gone, away!ROMEOO, I am fortune's fool!



SCENE V. Capulet's orchard.

Enter ROMEO and JULIET above, at the windowJULIETWilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day:It was the nightingale, and not the lark,That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear;Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate-tree:Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.ROMEOIt was the lark, the herald of the morn,No nightingale: look, love, what envious streaksDo lace the severing clouds in yonder east:Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund dayStands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.I must be gone and live, or stay and die.JULIETYon light is not day-light, I know it, I:It is some meteor that the sun exhales,To be to thee this night a torch-bearer,And light thee on thy way to Mantua:Therefore stay yet; thou need'st not to be gone.ROMEOLet me be ta'en, let me be put to death;I am content, so thou wilt have it so.I'll say yon grey is not the morning's eye,'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow;Nor that is not the lark, whose notes do beatThe vaulty heaven so high above our heads:I have more care to stay than will to go:Come, death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so.How is't, my soul? let's talk; it is not day.JULIETIt is, it is: hie hence, be gone, away!It is the lark that sings so out of tune,Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.Some say the lark makes sweet division;This doth not so, for she divideth us:Some say the lark and loathed toad change eyes,O, now I would they had changed voices too!Since arm from arm that voice doth us affray,Hunting thee hence with hunt's-up to the day,O, now be gone; more light and light it grows.ROMEOMore light and light; more dark and dark our woes!



How now, wife!Have you deliver'd to her our decree?

LADY CAPULETAy, sir; but she will none, she gives you thanks.I would the fool were married to her grave!CAPULETSoft! take me with you, take me with you, wife.How! will she none? doth she not give us thanks?Is she not proud? doth she not count her blest,Unworthy as she is, that we have wroughtSo worthy a gentleman to be her bridegroom?JULIETNot proud, you have; but thankful, that you have:Proud can I never be of what I hate;But thankful even for hate, that is meant love.CAPULETHow now, how now, chop-logic! What is this?'Proud,' and 'I thank you,' and 'I thank you not;'And yet 'not proud,' mistress minion, you,Thank me no thankings, nor, proud me no prouds,But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next,To go with Paris to Saint Peter's Church,Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither.Out, you green-sickness carrion! out, you baggage!You tallow-face!LADY CAPULETFie, fie! what, are you mad?JULIETGood father, I beseech you on my knees,Hear me with patience but to speak a word.CAPULETHang thee, young baggage! disobedient wretch!I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday,Or never after look me in the face:Speak not, reply not, do not answer me;My fingers itch. Wife, we scarce thought us blestThat God had lent us but this only child;But now I see this one is one too much,And that we have a curse in having her:Out on her, hilding!NurseGod in heaven bless her!You are to blame, my lord, to rate her so.CAPULETAnd why, my lady wisdom? hold your tongue,Good prudence; smatter with your gossips, go.



ROMEOGive me that mattock and the wrenching iron.Hold, take this letter; early in the morningSee thou deliver it to my lord and father.Give me the light: upon thy life, I charge thee,Whate'er thou hear'st or seest, stand all aloof,And do not interrupt me in my course.Why I descend into this bed of death,Is partly to behold my lady's face;But chiefly to take thence from her dead fingerA precious ring, a ring that I must useIn dear employment: therefore hence, be gone:But if thou, jealous, dost return to pryIn what I further shall intend to do,By heaven, I will tear thee joint by jointAnd strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs:The time and my intents are savage-wild,More fierce and more inexorable farThan empty tigers or the roaring sea.BALTHASARI will be gone, sir, and not trouble you.ROMEOSo shalt thou show me friendship. Take thou that:Live, and be prosperous: and farewell, good fellow.BALTHASAR[Aside] For all this same, I'll hide me hereabout:His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt.

Retires

ROMEOThou detestable maw, thou womb of death,Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth,Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open,And, in despite, I'll cram thee with more food!

Opens the tomb

PARISThis is that banish'd haughty Montague,That murder'd my love's cousin, with which grief,It is supposed, the fair creature died;And here is come to do some villanous shameTo the dead bodies: I will apprehend him.

Comes forward

Stop thy unhallow'd toil, vile Montague!Can vengeance be pursued further than death?Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee:Obey, and go with me; for thou must die.


ROMEOI must indeed; and therefore came I hither.Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man;Fly hence, and leave me: think upon these gone;Let them affright thee. I beseech thee, youth,Put not another sin upon my head,By urging me to fury: O, be gone!By heaven, I love thee better than myself;For I come hither arm'd against myself:Stay not, be gone; live, and hereafter say,A madman's mercy bade thee run away.PARISI do defy thy conjurations,And apprehend thee for a felon here.ROMEOWilt thou provoke me? then have at thee, boy!

They fight

PAGEO Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch.

Exit

PARISO, I am slain!

Falls

If thou be merciful,Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet.

Dies


PRINCEThis letter doth make good the friar's words,Their course of love, the tidings of her death:And here he writes that he did buy a poisonOf a poor 'pothecary, and therewithalCame to this vault to die, and lie with Juliet.Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague!See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate,That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.And I for winking at your discords tooHave lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish'd.CAPULETO brother Montague, give me thy hand:This is my daughter's jointure, for no moreCan I demand.MONTAGUEBut I can give thee more:For I will raise her statue in pure gold;That while Verona by that name is known,There shall no figure at such rate be setAs that of true and faithful Juliet.CAPULETAs rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie;Poor sacrifices of our enmity!PRINCEA glooming peace this morning with it brings;The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: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 woeThan this of Juliet and her Romeo.

Exeunt


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