We Doth Stupid

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.

So what? These verses from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet found their way into my journalism class this week ! We were asked to write leads and nut graphs - the first paragraph of a news story based on this (as if reporting in 17th century Verona, but without the Gothic English!)

Fatal Love

Verona – Two teenagers from long time feuding families were found dead in Verona today, in an apparent double suicide. While the deaths capture the fate of the love of Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, with this, the families have finally come to a truce. Decades of intense rivalry alive now lies buried with the deaths of the children.

"We doth stupid," said Lord Montague as a shifty Lady Montague looked on.

Some Gothic crept in anyway..

Muhaha - we doth stupid ! I doth very stupid all the time in my life!!