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Romeo and Juliet
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  • I wrote a sketch based on Romeo and Juliet about corruption.†   (source)
  • As he'd passed by them, Rasheed had playfully said, "If it isn't Laili and Majnoon," referring to the star-crossed lovers of Nezami's popular twelfth-century romantic poem-a Farsi version of Romeo and Juliet, Babi said, though he added that Nezami had written his tale of ill-fated lovers four centuries before Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • Annabeth and I held tight, both of us screaming as the boat shot curls and hugged corners and took forty-five-degree plunges past pictures of Romeo and Juliet and a bunch of other Valentine's Day stuff.†   (source)
  • Today they were supposed to be discussing Romeo and Juliet, but nobody wanted to talk.†   (source)
  • And Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • West Side Story famously reworks Romeo and Juliet, which resurfaces again in the 1990s, in a movie featuring con-temporary teen culture and automatic pistols.†   (source)
  • It could have been like a Romeo and Juliet thing with her loving me the first time she saw me and thinking that we could be like big-time moviemakers and then go to Hollywood and be stars and whatnot.†   (source)
  • I don't know how Heathcliff and Cathy ended up being ranked with couples like Romeo and Juliet or Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy.†   (source)
  • So did Saint Olaf and Charlemagne, to say nothing of Romeo and Juliet, Joan of Arc, Ivanhoe, the Pied Piper of Hamelin, and many mighty princes and majestic kings, chivalrous knights and fair damsels, anonymous stained-glass window makers and ingenious organ builders.†   (source)
  • They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet.†   (source)
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  • She kept thinking of a line from Romeo and Juliet that had freaked her out when they'd studied the play in ninth grade: With worms that are thy chambermaids.†   (source)
  • "Or since Romeo and Juliet," Belle suggested.†   (source)
  • "Romeo and Juliet?" she said skeptically.†   (source)
  • We saw ourselves as Romeo and Juliet, but we were convinced our story would have a happy ending.†   (source)
  • It's like you're Romeo and Juliet with the whole forbidden lovers thing.†   (source)
  • It was like a forbidden romance —like Romeo and Juliet, which I'd read in English class that semester.†   (source)
  • I read The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy, and Romeo and Juliet and Julius—†   (source)
  • Look at Romeo and Juliet; they're what, like, fourteen years old, and they meet at a party and barn, jump in bed.†   (source)
  • At school when we commenced studying Romeo and Juliet, the drama that might or might not be going on up at Grandpa's house laid itself down on every line Shakespeare wrote about love or marriage.†   (source)
  • "Just like Romeo and Juliet," Mrs. Whitshank said.†   (source)
  • Finch: I hate to be all Romeo and Juliet about this, but I want to see you alone.†   (source)
  • Booth was at the height of his fame and good looks, delighting women across the country with his performance as the male lead in a traveling production of Romeo and Juliet.†   (source)
  • In Romeo and Juliet.†   (source)
  • Romeo and Juliet is required reading in every freshman-year health class.†   (source)
  • Tell us, why has Romeo and Juliet survived four hundred years?†   (source)
  • Especially knowing how she felt about Romeo and Juliet.†   (source)
  • "I don't know if that's why Romeo and Juliet has become the most beloved play of all time.†   (source)
  • "Romeo and Juliet are just two rich kids who've always gotten every little thing they want.†   (source)
  • I, well, I haven't watched Romeo and Juliet yet for English.†   (source)
  • That sounds a lot like Romeo and Juliet.†   (source)
  • That's why people still remembered his name, always twined with hers: Romeo and Juliet.†   (source)
  • She probably wanted to get off the subject of Romeo and Juliet.†   (source)
  • I was invited as guest artist to dance with a number of companies worldwide after Romeo and Juliet.†   (source)
  • I mean I felt much sorrier when old Mercutio got killed than when Romeo and Juliet did.†   (source)
  • Then I tried longer books: Romeo and Juliet was one of my favorites.†   (source)
  • Well, I'm not too crazy about Romeo and Juliet," I said.†   (source)
  • I loved the story of Romeo and Juliet and the Prokofiev score, but the rehearsals were grueling.†   (source)
  • Romeo and Juliet, at least it was their own fault.†   (source)
  • I kept thinking of my school bag at home with copies of Oliver Twist and Romeo and Juliet waiting to be read and the Ugly Betty DVDs on the shelf.†   (source)
  • I hope never to be mortally stabbed, but if I am, I'd sure like to have the self-possession, when asked if it's bad, to answer, "No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve," as Mercutio does in Romeo and Juliet.†   (source)
  • I just used that scene in the beginning of Romeo and Juliet when those guys were dissing each other and then the scene where Romeo was talking his stuff to Juliet.†   (source)
  • It's a kind of Romeo and Juliet story in which Gul Makai and Musa Khan meet at school and fall in love.†   (source)
  • The guy who wrote Romeo and Juliet?†   (source)
  • —From the cautionary tale Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, reprinted in 100 Quotes to Know for the Boards, by The Princeton Review†   (source)
  • Strangely, in that moment I think back to what I answered all those months ago, at my first evaluation, when I was asked about Romeo and Juliet and could only think to say beautiful.†   (source)
  • "I've been trying to do that in a long poem," Lorenzo said, "you know, Romeo and Juliet today, only she's black and he's white—"†   (source)
  • I remembered with painful clarity his words that day on the sofa, while we watched Romeo and Juliet kill themselves, one after the other.†   (source)
  • Well, I wasn't going to live without you, he'd said as we watched Romeo and Juliet die, here in this very room.†   (source)
  • The opening night of Romeo and Juliet was one of the biggest events in the history of the Houston Ballet.†   (source)
  • You have Romeo and Juliet memorized.†   (source)
  • I read Shakespeare's play over and over and watched as many Romeo and Juliet movies as I could get my hands on.†   (source)
  • Oh, Romeo and Juliet!†   (source)
  • Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene VI =========================================================================== PREFACE I FELT LIKE I WAS TRAPPED IN ONE OF THOSE TERRIFYING nightmares, the one where you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but you can't make your body move fast enough.†   (source)
  • But for a ballet that told a story like Romeo and Juliet, I had to gather all my experiences together so I could somehow make the Romeo role more real for myself and for the audience.†   (source)
  • Then came Romeo and Juliet.†   (source)
  • Upstairs in his room the Savage was reading Romeo and Juliet.†   (source)
  • It was a movie theater and the marquee had letters made of rainbows: Romeo and Juliet.†   (source)
  • He remembered how Helmholtz had laughed at Romeo and Juliet.†   (source)
  • It's Romeo and Juliet.†   (source)
  • We, who have learned to base our interpretation of love on the conventional boy-and-girl romance of Romeo and Juliet, would be amazed if we could step back into the Middle Ages—when the poet of chivalry could write about Man that he had "en del un dieu, par terre une deesse."†   (source)
  • The Savage was reading Romeo and Juliet aloud–reading (for all the time he was seeing himself as Romeo and Lenina as Juliet) with an intense and quivering passion.†   (source)
  • I think it would be lovely to present 'Romeo and Juliet'!" yearned Ella Stowbody.†   (source)
  • The voice was singing the Wedding-night Song from Romeo and Juliet.†   (source)
  • Miss Wilkinson oddly enough had suggested that they should read Romeo and Juliet together; but Philip had firmly declined.†   (source)
  • A picture of the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet hung there and beside it was a picture of the two murdered princes in the Tower which Aunt Julia had worked in red, blue and brown wools when she was a girl.†   (source)
  • After breakfast the king he took a seat on the corner of the raft, and pulled off his boots and rolled up his britches, and let his legs dangle in the water, so as to be comfortable, and lit his pipe, and went to getting his Romeo and Juliet by heart.†   (source)
  • Then he remembered that the Reggie Chiverses, whose house was a few doors above, were taking a large party that evening to see Adelaide Neilson in Romeo and Juliet, and guessed that the two were of the number.†   (source)
  • But the real triumph was reserved for Christine Daae, who had begun by singing a few passages from Romeo and Juliet.†   (source)
  • It was 'Romeo and Juliet.'†   (source)
  • I would have you sit under a leafy tree side by side, and read together Romeo and Juliet; and then I would have you fall on your knees and on my behalf kiss the ground on which her foot has left its imprint; then tell her it is the homage of a poet to her radiant youth and to your love for her.†   (source)
  • "The first good town we come to we'll hire a hall and do the sword fight in Richard III. and the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet.†   (source)
  • The world renowned tragedians, David Garrick the Younger, of Drury Lane Theatre London, and Edmund Kean the elder, of the Royal Haymarket Theatre, Whitechapel, Pudding Lane, Piccadilly, London, and the Royal Continental Theatres, in their sublime Shakespearean Spectacle entitled TheBalcony Scene in Romeo and Juliet !†   (source)
  • Only let him be tolerably well up in the Apothecary in Romeo and Juliet, with the slightest possible dab of red on the tip of his nose, and he'd be certain of three rounds the moment he put his head out of the practicable door in the front grooves O.P.' 'You view him with a professional eye,' said Nicholas, laughing.†   (source)
  • Romeo and Juliet.†   (source)
  • A chanting cherub adorned the cover of the sugar bucket, and attempts to portray Romeo and Juliet supplied kindling for some time.†   (source)
  • In "Romeo and Juliet" Juliet has to be important, just as, in "Adam Bede" and "The Mill on the Floss" and "Middlemarch" and "Daniel Deronda," Hetty Sorrel and Maggie Tulliver and Rosamond Vincy and Gwendolen Harleth have to be; with that much of firm ground, that much of bracing air, at the disposal all the while of their feet and their lungs.†   (source)
  • Romeo and Juliet with the loveliest Juliet is dry, tedious, and rhetorical in comparison with Wagner's Tristan, even though Isolde be both fourteen stone and forty, as she often is in Germany.†   (source)
  • Now, Mrs Curdle was supposed, by those who were best informed on such points, to possess quite the London taste in matters relating to literature and the drama; and as to Mr Curdle, he had written a pamphlet of sixty-four pages, post octavo, on the character of the Nurse's deceased husband in Romeo and Juliet, with an inquiry whether he really had been a 'merry man' in his lifetime, or whether it was merely his widow's affectionate partiality that induced her so to report him.†   (source)
  • "harp not on that /nor/ do /not/ banish treason," and in "Romeo and Juliet,"†   (source)
  • He's a nice pattern of a Romeo and Juliet.†   (source)
  • He was himself a lord of language and had made himself a coistrel gentleman and he had written Romeo and Juliet.†   (source)
  • [Enter Romeo and Juliet.†   (source)
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