Po filloj me Romeo dhe Zhuljeta. Personalisht kete kryeveper e kam lexuar vetem ne gjuhen origjinale shekspirjane,e cila eshte pak e veshtire per tu kuptuar,dhe jam teper e lumtur qe pata fatin ta gjej dhe ne gjuhen moderne.Kur te kem kohe do kem kenaqesine e madhe ta lexoj,tani po e botoj ketu per adhuruesit e atij shkrimtari te pavdekshem nder shekuj.

Characters

Romeo
The son and heir of Montague and Lady Montague. A young man of about sixteen, Romeo is handsome, intelligent, and sensitive. Though impulsive and immature, his idealism and passion make him an extremely likable character. He lives in the middle of a violent feud between his family and the Capulets, but he is not at all interested in violence. His only interest is love and he goes to extremes to prove the seriousness of his feelings. He secretly marries Juliet, the daughter of his father's worst enemy; he happily takes abuse from Tybalt; and he would rather die than live without his beloved. Romeo is also an affectionate and devoted friend to his relative Benvolio, Mercutio, and Friar Lawrence.


Juliet
The daughter of Capulet and Lady Capulet. A beautiful thirteen-year-old girl, Juliet begins the play as a naïve child who has thought little about love and marriage, but she grows up quickly upon falling in love with Romeo, the son of her family's great enemy. Because she is a girl in an aristocratic family, she has none of the freedom Romeo has to roam around the city, climb over walls in the middle of the night, or get into swordfights. Nevertheless, she shows amazing courage in trusting her entire life and future to Romeo, even refusing to believe the worst reports about him after he gets involved in a fight with her cousin. Juliet's closest friend and confidant is her Nurse, though she's willing to shut the Nurse out of her life the moment the Nurse turns against Romeo.


Friar Lawrence
A Franciscan friar, friend to both Romeo and Juliet. Kind, civic-minded, a proponent of moderation, and always ready with a plan, Friar Lawrence secretly marries the impassioned lovers in hopes that the union might eventually bring peace to Verona. As well as being a Catholic holy man, Friar Lawrence is also an expert in the use of seemingly mystical potions and herbs.


Mercutio
A kinsman to the Prince, and Romeo's close friend. One of the most extraordinary characters in all of Shakespeare's plays, Mercutio overflows with imagination, wit, and, at times, a strange, biting satire and brooding fervor. Mercutio loves wordplay, especially sexual double entendres. He can be quite hotheaded, and hates people who are affected, pretentious, or obsessed with the latest fashions. He finds Romeo's romanticized ideas about love tiresome, and tries to convince Romeo to view love as a simple matter of sexual appetite.


The Nurse
Juliet's nurse, the woman who breast-fed Juliet when she was a baby and has cared for Juliet her entire life. A vulgar, long-winded, and sentimental character, the Nurse provides comic relief with her frequently inappropriate remarks and speeches. But, until a disagreement near the play's end, the Nurse is Juliet's faithful confidante and loyal intermediary in Juliet's affair with Romeo. She provides a contrast with Juliet, given that her view of love is earthy and sexual, whereas Juliet is idealistic and intense. The Nurse believes in love and wants Juliet to have a nice-looking husband, but the idea that Juliet would want to sacrifice herself for love is incomprehensible to her.


Tybalt
A Capulet, Juliet's cousin on her mother's side. Vain, fashionable, supremely aware of courtesy and the lack of it, he becomes aggressive, violent, and quick to draw his sword when he feels his pride has been injured. Once drawn, his sword is something to be feared. He loathes Montagues.


Capulet
The patriarch of the Capulet family, father of Juliet, husband of Lady Capulet, and enemy, for unexplained reasons, of Montague. He truly loves his daughter, though he is not well acquainted with Juliet's thoughts or feelings, and seems to think that what is best for her is a “good” match with Paris. Often prudent, he commands respect and propriety, but he is liable to fly into a rage when either is lacking.


Lady Capulet
Juliet's mother, Capulet's wife. A woman who herself married young (by her own estimation she gave birth to Juliet at close to the age of fourteen), she is eager to see her daughter marry Paris. She is an ineffectual mother, relying on the Nurse for moral and pragmatic support.


MontagueRomeo's father, the patriarch of the Montague clan and bitter enemy of Capulet. At the beginning of the play, he is chiefly concerned about Romeo's melancholy.


Lady Montague
Romeo's mother, Montague's wife. She dies of grief after Romeo is exiled from Verona.


Paris
A kinsman of the Prince, and the suitor of Juliet most preferred by Capulet. Once Capulet has promised him he can marry Juliet, he behaves very presumptuous toward, acting as if they are already married.


Benvolio
Montague's nephew, Romeo's cousin and thoughtful friend, he makes a genuine effort to defuse violent scenes in public places, though Mercutio accuses him of having a nasty temper in private. He spends most of the play trying to help Romeo get his mind off Rosaline, even after Romeo has fallen in love with Juliet.


Prince Escalus
The Prince of Verona. A kinsman of Mercutio and Paris. As the seat of political power in Verona, he is concerned about maintaining the public peace at all costs.


Friar John
A Franciscan friar charged by Friar Lawrence with taking the news of Juliet's false death to Romeo in Mantua. Friar John is held up in a quarantined house, and the message never reaches Romeo.


BalthasarRomeo's dedicated servant, who brings Romeo the news of Juliet's death, unaware that her death is a ruse.


Sampson and Gregory
Two servants of the house of Capulet, who, like their master, hate the Montagues. At the outset of the play, they successfully provoke some Montague men into a fight.


Abraham
Montague's servant, who fights with Sampson and Gregory in the first scene of the play.


The ApothecaryAn apothecary in Mantua. Had he been wealthier, he might have been able to afford to value his morals more than money, and refused to sell poison to Romeo.


Peter
A Capulet servant who invites guests to Capulet's feast and escorts the Nurse to meet with Romeo. He is illiterate, and a bad singer.


Rosaline
The woman with whom Romeo is infatuated at the beginning of the play. Rosaline never appears onstage, but it is said by other characters that she is very beautiful and has sworn to live a life of chastity.


The Chorus
The Chorus is a single character who functions as a narrator offering commentary on the play's plot and themes.



Prologue
CHORUS
In the beautiful city of Verona, where our story takes place, a long-standing hatred between two families erupts into new violence, and citizens stain their hands with the blood of their fellow citizens. Two unlucky children of these enemy families become lovers and commit suicide. Their unfortunate deaths put an end to their parents' feud. For the next two hours, we will watch the story of their doomed love and their parents' anger, which nothing but the children's deaths could stop. If you listen to us patiently, we'll make up for everything we've left out in this prologue onstage.

Act 1,scene i

SAMPSON and GREGORY, servants of the Capulet family, enter carrying swords and small shields
SAMPSON
Gregory, I swear, we can't let them humiliate us. We won't take their garbage
GREGORY
(teasing SAMPSON) No, because then we'd be garbagemen.
SAMPSON
What I mean is, if they make us angry we'll pull out our swords.
GREGORY
Maybe you should focus on pulling yourself out of trouble, Sampson.
SAMPSON
I hit hard when I'm angry
GREGORY
But it's hard to make you angry .
SAMPSON
One of those dogs from the Montague house can make me angry.
GREGORY
Angry enough to run away. You won't stand and fight.
SAMPSON
A dog from that house will make me angry enough to take a stand. If I pass one of them on the street, I'll take the side closer to the wall and let him walk in the gutter.
GREGORY
That means you're the weak one, because weaklings get pushed up against the wall.
SAMPSON
You're right. That's why girls get pushed up against walls—they're weak. So what I'll do is push the Montague men into the street and the Montague women up against the wall.
GREGORY
The fight is between our masters, and we men who work for them.
SAMPSON
It's all the same. I'll be a harsh master to them. After I fight the men, I'll be nice to the women—I'll cut off their heads.
GREGORY
Cut off their heads? You mean their maidenheads ?
SAMPSON
Cut off their heads, take their maidenheads—whatever. Take my remark in whichever sense you like.
GREGORY
The women you rape are the ones who'll have to “sense” it.
SAMPSON
They'll feel me as long as I can keep an erection. Everybody knows I'm a nice piece of flesh.
GREGORY
It's a good thing you're not a piece of fish. You're dried and shriveled like salted fish.
ABRAM and another servant of the Montagues enter.
Pull out your tool now. These guys are from the house of Montague.
SAMPSON
I have my naked sword out. Fight, I'll back you up.
GREGORY
How will you back me up—by turning your back and running away?
SAMPSON
Don't worry about me
GREGORY
No, really. I am worried about you
SAMPSON
Let's not break the law by starting a fight. Let them start something.
GREGORY
I'll frown at them as they pass by, and they can react however they want.
SAMPSON
You mean however they dare. I'll bite my thumb at them. That's an insult, and if they let me get away with it they'll be dishonored. (SAMPSON bites his thumb )
ABRAM
Hey, are you biting your thumb at us?
SAMPSON
I'm biting my thumb.
ABRAM
Are you biting your thumb at us?
SAMPSON
(aside to GREGORY) Is the law on our side if I say yes?
GREGORY
(aside to SAMPSON) No
SAMPSON
(to ABRAM) No, sir, I'm not biting my thumb at you, but I am biting my thumb.
GREGORY
Are you trying to start a fight?
ABRAM
Start a fight? No, sir
SAMPSON
If you want to fight, I'm your man. My employer is as good as yours.
ABRAM
But he's not better than mine
SAMPSON
Well then.
BENVOLIO enters.
GREGORY
(speaking so that only SAMPSON can hear) Say “better.” Here comes one of my employer's relatives
SAMPSON
(to ABRAM) Yes, “better,” sir
ABRAM
You lie
SAMPSON
Pull out your swords, if you're men. Gregory, remember how to slash.
They fight
BENVOLIO
(pulling out his sword) Break it up, you fools. Put your swords away. You don't know what you're doing.
TYBALT enters
TYBALT
What? You've pulled out your sword to fight with these worthless servants? Turn around, Benvolio, and look at the man who's going to kill you.
BENVOLIO
I'm only trying to keep the peace. Either put away your sword or use it to help me stop this fight.
TYBALT
What? You take out your sword and then talk about peace? I hate the word peace like I hate hell, all Montagues, and you. Let's go at it, coward
BENVOLIO and TYBALT fight. Three or four CITIZENS of the watch enter with clubs and spears.
CITIZENS
Use your clubs and spears! Hit them! Beat them down! Down with the Capulets! Down with the Montagues!
CAPULET enters in his gown, together with his wife, LADY CAPULET.
CAPULET
What's this noise? Give me my long sword! Come on!
LADY CAPULET
A crutch, you need a crutch—why are you asking for a sword?
MONTAGUE enters with his sword drawn,together with his wife, LADY MONTAGUE
CAPULET
I want my sword. Old Montague is here, and he's waving his sword around just to make me mad
MONTAGUE
Capulet, you villain! (his wife holds him back) Don't stop me. Let me go.
LADY MONTAGUE
You're not taking one step toward an enemy
PRINCE ESCALUS enters with his escort
PRINCE
(shouting at the rioters) You rebels! Enemies of the peace! Men who turn their weapons against their own neighbors—They won't listen to me?—You there! You men, you beasts, who satisfy your anger with fountains of each others' blood! I'll have you tortured if you don't put down your swords and listen to your angry prince. (MONTAGUE, CAPULET, and their followers throw down their weapons) Three times now riots have broken out in this city, all because of a casual word from you, old Capulet and Montague. Three times the peace has been disturbed in our streets, and Verona's old citizens have had to take off their dress clothes and pick up rusty old spears to part you. If you ever cause a disturbance on our streets again, you'll pay for it with your lives. Everyone else, go away for now. (to CAPULET) You, Capulet, come with me. (to MONTAGUE) Montague, this afternoon come to old Free-town, the court where I deliver judgments, and I'll tell you what else I want from you. As for the rest of you, I'll say this once more: go away or be put to death
Everyone exits except MONTAGUE, LADY MONTAGUE, and BENVOLIO.
MONTAGUE
Who started this old fight up again? Speak, nephew. Were you here when it started?
BENVOLIO
Your servants were fighting your enemy's servants before I got here. I drew my sword to part them. Right then, that hothead Tybalt showed up with his sword ready. He taunted me and waved his sword around, making the air hiss. As we were trading blows, more and more people showed up to join the fight, until the Prince came and broke everyone up.
LADY MONTAGUE
Oh, where's Romeo? Have you seen him today? I'm glad he wasn't here for this fight.

BENVOLIO
Madam, I had a lot on my mind an hour before dawn this morning, so I went for a walk. Underneath the Sycamore grove that grows on the west side of the city, I saw your son taking an early-morning walk. I headed toward him, but he saw me coming and hid in the woods. I thought he must be feeling the same way I was—wanting to be alone and tired of his own company. I figured he was avoiding me, and I was perfectly happy to leave him alone and keep to myself.
MONTAGUE
He's been seen there many mornings, crying tears that add drops to the morning dew and making a cloudy day cloudier with his sighs. But as soon as the sun rises in the east, my sad son comes home to escape the light
He locks himself up alone in his bedroom, shuts his windows to keep out the beautiful daylight, and makes himself an artificial night. This mood of his is going to bring bad news, unless someone smart can fix what's bothering him.
BENVOLIO
My noble uncle, do you know why he acts this way?
MONTAGUE
I don't know, and he won't tell me
BENVOLIO
Have you done everything you could to make him tell you the reason?
MONTAGUE
I've tried, and many of our friends have tried to make him talk, but he keeps his thoughts to himself. He doesn't want any friend but himself, and though I don't know whether he's a good friend to himself, he certainly keeps his own secrets. He's like a flower bud that won't open itself up to the world because it's been poisoned from within by parasites. If we could only find out why he's sad, we'd be as eager to help him as we were to learn the reason for his sadness.
ROMEO enters
BENVOLIO
Look—here he comes. If you don't mind, please step aside. He'll either have to tell me what's wrong or else tell me no over and over.
MONTAGUE
I hope you're lucky enough to hear the true story by sticking around. (to his wife) Come, madam, let's go.
MONTAGUE and LADY MONTAGUE exit.
BENVOLIO
Good morning, cousin
ROMEO
Is it that early in the day
BENVOLIO
It's only just now nine o'clock
ROMEO
Oh my, time goes by slowly when you're sad. Was that my father who left here in such a hurry
BENVOLIO
It was. What's making you so sad and your hours so long?
ROMEO
I don't have the thing that makes time fly.
BENVOLIO
You're in love?
ROMEO
Out.
BENVOLIO
Out of love?
 ROMEO
I love someone. She doesn't love me.
BENVOLIO
It's sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it's actually very rough when you experience it.
ROMEO
What's sad is that love is supposed to be blind, but it can still make you do whatever it wants. So, where should we eat? (seeing blood) Oh my! What fight happened here? No, don't tell me—I know all about it. This fight has a lot to do with hatred, but it has more to do with love. O brawling love! O loving hate! Love that comes from nothing! Sad happiness! Serious foolishness! Beautiful things muddled together into an ugly mess! Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake—it's everything except what it is! This is the love I feel, though no one loves me back. Are you laughing?
BENVOLIO
No, cousin, I'm crying
ROMEO
Good man, why are you crying?
BENVOLIO
I'm crying because of how sad you are.
ROMEO
Yes, this is what love does. My sadness sits heavy in my chest, and you want to add your own sadness to mine so there's even more. I have too much sadness already, and now you're going to make me sadder by feeling sorry for you. Here's what love is: a smoke made out of lovers' sighs. When the smoke clears, love is a fire burning in your lover's eyes. If you frustrate love, you get an ocean made out of lovers' tears. What else is love? It's a wise form of madness. It's a sweet lozenge that you choke on. Goodbye, cousin.
BENVOLIO
Wait. I'll come with you. If you leave me like this, you're doing me wrong.
ROMEO
I'm not myself. I'm not here. This isn't Romeo—he's somewhere else
BENVOLIO
Tell me seriously, who is the one you love?
 Seriously? You mean I should groan and tell you?
BENVOLIO
Groan? No. But tell me seriously who it is.
ROMEO
You wouldn't tell a sick man he “seriously” has to make his will—it would just make him worse. Seriously, cousin, I love a woman.
BENVOLIO
I guessed that already when I guessed you were in love.
ROMEO
Then you were right on target. The woman I love is beautiful.
BENVOLIO
A beautiful target is the one that gets hit the fastest
ROMEO
Well, you're not on target there. She refuses to be hit by Cupid's arrow. She's as clever as Diana, and shielded by the armor of chastity. She can't be touched by the weak and childish arrows of love. She won't listen to words of love, or let you look at her with loving eyes, or open her lap to receive gifts of gold. She's rich in beauty, but she's also poor, because when she dies her beauty will be destroyed with her.
BENVOLIO
So she's made a vow to be a virgin forever?
ROMEO
Yes she has, and by keeping celibate, she wastes her beauty. If you starve yourself of sex you can't ever have children, and so your beauty is lost to future generations. She's too beautiful and too wise to deserve heaven's blessing by making me despair. She's sworn off love, and that promise has left me alive but dead, living only to talk about it now.
BENVOLIO
Take my advice. Don't think about her.
ROMEO
Teach me to forget to think!
BENVOLIO
Do it by letting your eyes wander freely. Look at other beautiful girls.
ROMEO
That will only make me think more about how beautiful she is. Beautiful women like to wear black masks over their faces—those black masks only make us think about how beautiful they are underneath. A man who goes blind can't forget the precious eyesight he lost. Show me a really beautiful girl. Her beauty is like a note telling me where I can see someone even more beautiful. Goodbye. You can't teach me to forget.
BENVOLIO
I'll show you how to forget, or else I'll die owing you that lesson.
They exit.


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