wo 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.
It’s about two families, both similar in status, who have been seriously arguing for years. the story is set in Verona. now that Romeo and Juliet are secretly in love, the families continue to argue. civilians are killing each other. when they were born, they were destined to die. The destined lovers kill themselves, and so the parents realise their arguing must end.