{"product_id":"1440800-1623-shakespeare","title":"1440800 1623 Shakespeare.  Romeo and Juliet.  Nine Leaves.","description":"10249. \u003cdiv align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRomeo and Juliet.  From the First Folio.  1623.   \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEighteen pages.  (53-56, 61-72, 79).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e (See item 10216 for full description of Romeo and Juliet Fragment)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\"\u003eThe first fragment, comprising twelve pages, picks up immediately following the balcony scene after Romeo and Juliet have parted.  Early the next morning Romeo visits Friar Lawrence to whom its apparent that Romeo has not slept all night. Romeo tells the Friar he needs to be married in a hurry.  The Friar thinks he’s finally hooking up with Rosaline but is shocked to learn that no, it is a Capulet that Romeo pursues.  The Friar assures Romeo that he will inform Juliet of his whereabouts and tell Juliet tomeet up with him later.  But things go astray and Juliet winds up confronting her mother and dashing out. Romeo in the meantime becomes embroiled in a dual with Tybalt, a very close cousin of Juliet.  He kills Tybalt because Tybalt has just slain Mercutio, Romeo’s best friend.   On learning of the death of Tybalt, lady Capulet urges the Prince to kill a Montague. The Prince instead demands that Romeo be banished from Verona.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\"\u003eNot knowing of these skirmishes and particularly not knowing Romeo’s part in them Juliet delivers one of the most beautiful speeches in  the entire Shakespeare canon beginning “Gallup apace you fiery footed steeds” as she longs to once again be united with Romeo. She wishes that Romeo could be cut into “little stars” so that he “will make the face of heaven so fine\/ that all the world will be in love with night\/and pay no worship to the garish son”.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\"\u003eThe nurse rushes breathlessly into Juliet’s chamber crying only that “he is dead he is dead.”. Juliet is horrified thinking the Nurse is referring to Romeo when actually the she is speaking of Romeo’s killing  of Tybalt. The nurse then says that because of this Romeo has been banished but tells Juliet that he is currently in Friar Lawrence’s cell. \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\"\u003eIn the friar’s cell the two reunite briefly in a passage of poignant, haunting beauty.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\"\u003eIn the friar’s cell tells the friar that unless he can somehow prevail against her wedding to Paris she will kill herself.  The Friar gives her a potion that will give her the appearance of death but that the spell will last only “two and forty hours”.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\"\u003eA message from Juliet does not reach Romeo, so that when he discovers Juliet’s apparently lifeless body, he assumes she has killed herself.  Romeo drinks a potion supplied by his own apothecary and gives Juliet a parting kiss before he succumbs.  When Juliet wakes from her spell, sees Romeo’s body then stabs herself and dies.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\"\u003eThe last fragment is the final page of the tragedy with its beautiful haunting speech by the Prince at the very end \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\"\u003e“where be these enemies.  Capulet.  Montague.  See what a scourge is laid upon your hates that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love” and  a little bit later “a glooming piece this morning with it brings\/the sun for sorrow will not show his head…for never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo”.  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e  About Good","brand":"1623","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41033784000685,"sku":"10249","price":1000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0284\/7646\/products\/10249.jpg?v=1636224809","url":"https:\/\/www.nrarities.com\/products\/1440800-1623-shakespeare","provider":"The Gillespie Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}