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Narrador: Dos familias, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene.

Capuleto: Bienvenidos, damas y caballeros.

Narrador: From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

Julieta: Nana.

Nana: Ajá.

Julieta: ¿Quién es aquel caballero?

Nana: His name is Romeo y es un Montesco, the only son of your great enemy.

Julieta: My only love sprung from my only hate. Too early seen unknown and known too late.

Narrador: The Public Theater and WNYC Studios copresent a bilingual production of Shakespeare's Romeo y Julieta. La producción es en español e inglés.

Romeo: But, soft. What light through yonder window breaks? Es el oriente y Julieta el sol.

Julieta: Romeo, Romeo, ¿por qué eres Romeo? Niega a tu padre y rechaza tu nombre o, si prefieres, jura que me amas y yo ya no seré una Capuleto.

Narrador: The most famous love story of all time, donde el amor y la violencia son dos caras de la misma moneda.

Romeo: Estoy herido.

Julieta: Malditas sean sus familias. A plague on both your houses.

Romeo: Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purged.

Julieta: Then have my lips the sin that they have took.

Romeo: Sin from thy lips? Qué dulce invitación, give me my sin again.

Julieta: You kiss by the book.

Narrador: Romeo y Julieta, by William Shakespeare. Una nueva adaptación de Saheem Ali y Ricardo Pérez González. Spanish translation by Alfredo Michel Modenessi, en una copresentación del Public Theater y WNYC Studios. Available for download March 18th, el 18 de marzo at publictheater.org, WNYC, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other platforms.

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