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Romeo and Juliet - The prologue.
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Romeo and Juliet The prologue sets the background of the story of Romeo and Juliet. The prologue gives a lot of the story away, without taking the suspense from it. It is a very basic explanation of what is going to happen in the play. It quotes 'Patient ears attend/what here shall miss'. Shakespeare is saying that if you listen carefully to the play on what he has missed in the prologue, you will soon find out the whole story and what really happens. The prologue is a sonnet. A sonnet is used for various reasons. It may set the scene for a film as it can usually help people to understand the storyline better. A sonnet consists of quatrains and a rhyming couplet. A sonnet is a symbol of love, so by making the prologue a sonnet at the beginning of the play, it is symbolising that the play...
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