Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
PRINCE ESCALUS’S SPEECH
Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,
Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel,—
Will they not hear? What, ho! you men, you beasts,
That quench the fire of your pernicious rage
With purple fountains issuing from your veins,
On pain of torture, from those bloody hands
Throw your mistemper'd weapons to the ground,
And hear the sentence of your moved prince.
Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word,
By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,
Have thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets,
And made Verona's ancient citizens
Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments,
To wield old partisans, in hands as old,
Canker'd with peace, to part your canker'd hate:
If ever you disturb our streets again,
Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.
For this time, all the rest depart away:
You Capulet; shall go along with me:
And, Montague, come you this afternoon,
To know our further pleasure in this case,
To old Free-town, our common judgment-place.
Once more, on pain of death, all men depart
Good morning
The context of Escalus’s speech that I have just performed is in Act 1, Scene 1, where Prince Escalus intervenes a chaotic, hate-fuelled confrontation between the Capulets and Montagues. In Elizabethan times, the King’s power or in this case the Prince who was the representative of the King, has the power and authority to enforce rules, maintain law and order. The extract communicates the theme authority, law, and order.
The formality of my costume is of the uttermost, as the Prince is the highest in rank compared to everyone else in Romeo and Juliet. I used a crimson coloured shirt to illustrate the authority, regal ranking, power and influences befitting a prince. The crimson colour resembles the royal blood flowing within him, identifying him as the descendant of the monarch, which automatically endowed him with power and authority to command
Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,
Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel,—
Will they not hear? What, ho! you men, you beasts,
That quench the fire of your pernicious rage
With purple fountains issuing from your veins,
On pain of torture, from those bloody hands
Throw your mistemper'd weapons to the ground,
And hear the sentence of your moved prince.
Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word,
By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,
Have thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets,
And made Verona's ancient citizens
Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments,
To wield old partisans, in hands as old,
Canker'd with peace, to part your canker'd hate:
If ever you disturb our streets again,
Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.
For this time, all the rest depart away:
You Capulet; shall go along with me:
And, Montague, come you this afternoon,
To know our further pleasure in this case,
To old Free-town, our common judgment-place.
Once more, on pain of death, all men depart
Good morning
The context of Escalus’s speech that I have just performed is in Act 1, Scene 1, where Prince Escalus intervenes a chaotic, hate-fuelled confrontation between the Capulets and Montagues. In Elizabethan times, the King’s power or in this case the Prince who was the representative of the King, has the power and authority to enforce rules, maintain law and order. The extract communicates the theme authority, law, and order.
The formality of my costume is of the uttermost, as the Prince is the highest in rank compared to everyone else in Romeo and Juliet. I used a crimson coloured shirt to illustrate the authority, regal ranking, power and influences befitting a prince. The crimson colour resembles the royal blood flowing within him, identifying him as the descendant of the monarch, which automatically endowed him with power and authority to command