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Apr 3, 2024 · These quotes cover the themes of love, fate, stars, conflict, and death from William Shakespeare’s famous book. Use them for assignments, lesson plans, romantic expressions like a wedding script, or further insights into this famous play.
So in this selection of funniest Shakespeare quotes we’ve stuck to the most amusing Shakespeare insults, a few obviously funny one-liners, and finish with one of Shakespeare’s dirtiest jokes which does require some explanation, but is worth it.
Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Prologue. Romeo and Juliet’s love is fated to end in death from the very beginning, the Chorus tells us. This is an example of dramatic irony, since the audience knows this before the characters do.
In Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare gave the world such memorable quotes as “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet“, “parting is such sweet sorrow”, “a plague on both your houses” and dozens more. Below is our pick of the very best quotes from Romeo and Juliet, spoken by a variety of primary and secondary characters in the play.
Just before Romeo heads over to the Capulet ball, where he falls in love with and meets (in that order) Juliet, he tells us that he has a funny felling – he fears that something "hanging in the stars" (something destined to happen) will be set in motion that night.
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Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Prologue. Romeo and Juliet’s love is fated to end in death from the very beginning, the Chorus tells us. This is an example of dramatic irony, since the audience knows this before the characters do.