Entry#17

I think that Shakespeare included this to let everyone know exactly what this play is about because back when it was written people would go to the theater not actually knowing what was going to happen in this play because they didn't have the advertisement we have today. The prologue would tell people this is what will happen and not only that if you didn't fully understand what was happening you could figure it out from what was said in the prologue.
The lines are:
'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-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought 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.'
The first line is saying two families are practically the same in how they act. Then it goes on to say that these families live in Verona where the story takes place. These families continue to fight an old feud that has been going on for ages. There is violence that is occurring not only between the two families but this feud is bring other citizens against each other.Then it says the children of both families fall in love even though they shouldn't have. But then these children commit suicide after a series of events that keep them from seeing each other.After they kill themselves the fight between families ends due to the lost of these children. Next it states, these events and more will be performed in the next two hours and any information in this introduction you have missed will be explained as you watch. I believe this is what the prologue is trying to say.