Juliet

Read for LibriVox.org by Martin Clifton.

Juliet expresses her anxiety that Romeo is a Montague whilst she is a Capulet.

O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name, or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet.

Tis but thy name that is my enemy.

Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.

Um, We're closing the lid on this month's Time Capsule with a movie that brought Shakespeare into the MTV generation.

Three years ago, Bass Lerman released William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and if you were a teenager in the 90s, there's a pretty good chance you remember this movie.

The movie starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Romeo and Claire Danes as Juliet, but the supporting cast was just as memorable.

John Leguizamo as Tabalt.

Love this movie, I swear.

I bite my thumb, but not at thee, sir.

Do you bite your thumb at me, sir? The story itself remains the same.

Romeo and Juliet fall in love despite their family's hatred for one another and their relationship leads to tragedy.

So you need to be thinking about what your students are thinking about, because that's what they're going to remember.

If they are thinking about the mechanics of the finger puppet, that's what they're thinking about, that's what they'll remember, okay? If you want them to think about the relationships between Romeo and Juliet, the Montagues, the Capulet, you need to be doing activities that will help them think about that.

And the reason why Willingham is so right that this is the most important piece of advice ever, and it's actually a great piece of advice in life, because you kind of become what you think about.

Well, it's quite good for parenting.

Seen as a turncoat by some in the region, he was murdered by the Logan Wildcats, a Confederate militia that included the Hetfields.

From these incidents, the Hetfields and McCoys would fight over honor and possessions for the next two decades, resulting in at least a dozen deaths in each family, with only a brief pause for the Montague and Capulet-style romance between Randolph's daughter Rosanna and Delvalance's son Johnsy.

Their animosity pulled everyone nearby into its vortex, including the governors of West Virginia and Kentucky and even the US Supreme Court.

newspaper stories misled the public to believe they were poor, but both families actually had sizable land holdings and timber interests.

Oh, you're reading, you're reading Romeo and Juliet? Okay.

Yeah.

But, uh, during the first meeting at the Capulet feast.

All right.

That's, uh, uh-

It's the Montagues and the Capulets, right?

Montagues and the Capulets.

Okay.

And we humans always need our stories to resolve.

I'm going to start with Romeo and Juliet, partly because it's one of the most well-known plays.

It's often most people's introduction to Shakespeare.

What better way to validate the raging hormones of your prepubescent children as they stop viewing you as gods and start pushing back on every authoritarian instruction from being nice to grandma to doing your homework via tidying your room.

He'll kill Romeo there and then, but for Capulet Daddy reassuring him not to worry about this flighty teenager.

Another potential flashpoint avoided.

But now Romeo and Juliet have met.

Which is the worst rhyme you'll hear today? The chorus character tells it much better, breaking the action to deliver a sonnet that begins.