With such irresistible names, Romeo and Juliet have both been done many times, but I thought I'd try a summary of the whole play:
Saddest of tragedies--
Juliet Capulet
tumbles in love with fair
Romeo's grace,
but to her sorrow an
irreconcilable
quarrel denies her her
lover's embrace.
Troublesome circumstance--
Romeo Montague,
killing her kinsman in
contest of arms,
finds himself subject to
prosecutorial
fervor and flees from his
Juliet's charms.
Frantic and woebegone,
Romeo's Juliet,
hopelessly hoping her
lover to keep,
gets from her chaplain a
pharmacological
wonder that brings on a
death-aping sleep.
Rushing to be with her,
Juliet's Romeo
swallows a poison, be-
lieving her dead.
Waking, she--pitiful
epithalamion!--
joins him in death on that
sorrowful bed.
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