I NEED HELP ASAP!!!!!!! What does the audience learn about the Capulets and the Montagues from
the prologue?
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 loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-marked love
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, naught 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.
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, prologue, lines 1-14.
A. They are powerful families in Verona that have not had any
contact until now.
B. They are powerful families in Verona that have been at war for
many years.
OC. They have had a great relationship for years but now are in
conflict.
D. They are powerful families that have never gotten along and never