Romeo O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do; They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair. Juliet Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.

Note that Juliet does not move during their first kiss; she simply lets Romeo kiss her. She is still a young girl, and though already in her dialogue with Romeo has proved herself intelligent, she …

You kiss by the book, "you kiss methodically; you offer as many reasons for kissing, as could have been found in a treatise professedly written on the subject" (Amner, i.e. Steevens).

Romeo, the bold lover, kicks off the sonnet with a sly conflation2 of physical and religious language. In his metaphorical description of his lips as ‘blushing Pilgrims’ he is attempting to …

Romeo Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take. [He kisses her] Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purged.

We explore the first meeting between Romeo and Juliet, with annotated play text and pictures of this scene in past productions.

Romeo acts reverentially, cleverly convincing Juliet to let him kiss her while also treating her as a saint. In the ‘Act I Scene 5 Sonnet’ Romeo and Juliet meet. It is in these lines that they first …

Two 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 …

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, often shortened to Romeo and Juliet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare about the romance between two young Italians from feuding families.

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