Romeo and Juliet

Synopsis: Shakespeare's classic tale of romance and tragedy. Two families of Verona, the Montagues and the Capulets, have been feuding with each other for years. Young Romeo Montague goes out with his friends to make trouble at a party the Capulets are hosting, but while there he spies the Capulet's daughter Juliet, and falls hopelessly in love with her. She returns his affections, but they both know that their families will never allow them to follow their hearts.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Franco Zeffirelli
Production: Paramount Home Video
  Won 2 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 15 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
94%
PG
Year:
1968
138 min
12,878 Views


ACT I:

PROLOGUE:

Two households, both alike in dignity,

In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes

A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;

Whose misadventured piteous overthrows

Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,

And the continuance of their parents' rage,

Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,

Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;

The which if you with patient ears attend,

What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

SCENE I. Verona. A public place.

Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, of the house of Capulet, armed with swords and bucklers

SAMPSON:

Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals.

GREGORY:

No, for then we should be colliers.

SAMPSON:

I mean, an we be in choler, we'll draw.

GREGORY:

Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o' the collar.

SAMPSON:

I strike quickly, being moved.

GREGORY:

But thou art not quickly moved to strike.

SAMPSON:

A dog of the house of Montague moves me.

GREGORY:

To move is to stir; and to be valiant is to stand:

therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away.

SAMPSON:

A dog of that house shall move me to stand: I will

take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.

GREGORY:

That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakest goes

to the wall.

SAMPSON:

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.

GREGORY:

The 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 cruel with the

maids, and cut off their heads.

GREGORY:

The heads of the maids?

SAMPSON:

Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads;

take it in what sense thou wilt.

GREGORY:

They must take it in sense that feel it.

SAMPSON:

Me 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 the Montagues.

SAMPSON:

My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee.

GREGORY:

How! turn thy back and run?

SAMPSON:

Fear me not.

GREGORY:

No, marry; I fear thee!

SAMPSON:

Let us take the law of our sides; let them begin.

GREGORY:

I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as

they list.

SAMPSON:

Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them;

which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.

Enter ABRAHAM and BALTHASAR

ABRAHAM:

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

SAMPSON:

I do bite my thumb, sir.

ABRAHAM:

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

SAMPSON:

[Aside to GREGORY] Is the law of our side, if I say

ay?

GREGORY:

No.

SAMPSON:

No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I

bite my thumb, sir.

GREGORY:

Do you quarrel, sir?

ABRAHAM:

Quarrel sir! no, sir.

SAMPSON:

If you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good a man as you.

ABRAHAM:

No better.

SAMPSON:

Well, sir.

GREGORY:

Say 'better:' here comes one of my master's kinsmen.

SAMPSON:

Yes, better, sir.

ABRAHAM:

You lie.

SAMPSON:

Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.

They fight

Enter BENVOLIO

BENVOLIO:

Part, fools!

Put up your swords; you know not what you do.

Beats down their swords

Enter TYBALT

TYBALT:

What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?

Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.

BENVOLIO:

I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword,

Or manage it to part these men with me.

TYBALT:

What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word,

As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee:

Have at thee, coward!

They fight

Enter, several of both houses, who join the fray; then enter Citizens, with clubs

First Citizen

Clubs, bills, and partisans! strike! beat them down!

Down with the Capulets! down with the Montagues!

Enter CAPULET in his gown, and LADY CAPULET

CAPULET:

What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!

LADY CAPULET:

A crutch, a crutch! why call you for a sword?

CAPULET:

My sword, I say! Old Montague is come,

And flourishes his blade in spite of me.

Enter MONTAGUE and LADY MONTAGUE

MONTAGUE:

Thou villain Capulet,--Hold me not, let me go.

LADY MONTAGUE:

Thou shalt not stir a foot to seek a foe.

Enter PRINCE, with Attendants

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.

Exeunt all but MONTAGUE, LADY MONTAGUE, and BENVOLIO

Rate this script:4.0 / 11 votes

Discuss this script with the community:

1 Comment

Translation

Translate and read this script in other languages:

Select another language:

  • - Select -
  • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
  • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
  • Español (Spanish)
  • Esperanto (Esperanto)
  • 日本語 (Japanese)
  • Português (Portuguese)
  • Deutsch (German)
  • العربية (Arabic)
  • Français (French)
  • Русский (Russian)
  • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
  • 한국어 (Korean)
  • עברית (Hebrew)
  • Gaeilge (Irish)
  • Українська (Ukrainian)
  • اردو (Urdu)
  • Magyar (Hungarian)
  • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
  • Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Italiano (Italian)
  • தமிழ் (Tamil)
  • Türkçe (Turkish)
  • తెలుగు (Telugu)
  • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
  • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
  • Čeština (Czech)
  • Polski (Polish)
  • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Românește (Romanian)
  • Nederlands (Dutch)
  • Ελληνικά (Greek)
  • Latinum (Latin)
  • Svenska (Swedish)
  • Dansk (Danish)
  • Suomi (Finnish)
  • فارسی (Persian)
  • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
  • հայերեն (Armenian)
  • Norsk (Norwegian)
  • English (English)

Citation

Use the citation below to add this screenplay to your bibliography:

Style:MLAChicagoAPA

"Romeo and Juliet" Scripts.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 19 Mar. 2024. <https://www.scripts.com/script/romeo_and_juliet_97>.

We need you!

Help us build the largest writers community and scripts collection on the web!

Watch the movie trailer

Romeo and Juliet

Browse Scripts.com

The Studio:

ScreenWriting Tool

Write your screenplay and focus on the story with many helpful features.