Your assignment is to closely read and annotate the prologue so that you understand what it says. Then, you will rewrite the prologue, line for line, in modern English. Your finished product will be a 14 line poem written in modern English that has just about the same amount of words as the original. Bonus points if you follow the same rhyme scheme (ABABCDCDEFEFGG)

THE PROLOGUE

Enter Chorus.

1)Two households, both alike in dignity (A)

2)(In fair Verona, where we lay our scene), (B)

3)From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, (A)

4)Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. (B)

5)From forth the fatal loins of these two foes (C)

6)A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; (D)

7)Whose misadventured piteous overthrows (C)

8)Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife. (D)

9)The fearful passage of their death-marked love (E)

10)And the continuance of their parents’ rage, (F)

11)Which, but their children’s end, naught could remove, (E)

12)Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage; (F)

13)The which, if you with patient ears attend, (G)

14)What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. (G)

Chorus exits.

YOUR TRANSLATION:

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Read the excerpt from julius caesar, act 1, scene 1. marullus. wherefore rejoice? what conquest brings he home? what tributaries follow him to rome to grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels? you blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless35 things! o, you hard hearts, you cruel men of rome, knew you not pompey? many a time and oft have you climbed up to walls and battlements, to towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, your infants in your arms, and there have sat40 the livelong day, with patient expectation, to see great pompey pass the streets of rome. which summary of the passage is the best? marullus asks a lot of questions, such as, “why celebrate? what has caesar done? who is following him to rome? don’t you remember pompey? ” then he says that everyone is cruel because they do not remember pompey. they forget how they praised him and would climb to the highest places, carrying their children, just to catch a glimpse of him. marullus regrets that the people are celebrating caesar and is insulted that they forgot how they used to praise pompey. marullus thinks that the people should celebrate caesar the way they used to celebrate pompey, and that they should be in awe of caesar’s greatness. marullus remembers how the people climbed walls, battlements, towers, windows, and even chimney tops to see the great pompey.

Which textbook section would you use to identify the books and articles the author used or referred to in writing the book? introduction bibliography index table of contents

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