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Explanation:
The two versions of the famous feud between the Capulets and the Montagues, as perceived by the Prince in both Shakespeare's play and Brookes's poem, are similar in that they both portray the Prince as man who is trying to restore or maintain peace in the land. In Brooke's poem he is referenced here as being willing to solve the family feud in a gentle way:
But when the prudent prince, who there the sceptre held,
So great a new disorder in his commonweal beheld;
By gentle mean he sought, their choler to assuage;
And by persuasion to appease, their blameful furious rage.
However, in Shakespeare's theatrical version of Romeo and Juliet, the Prince threatens to kill Capulet and Montague when he says,
"If ever you disturb our streets again, Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace."
Shakespeare jacks up the drama by making the family conflict more intense and violent. His language and tone are much more urgent. He demands that they come at once to the neutral meeting place when he says:
"You Capulet; shall go along with me: And, Montague, come you this afternoon."
Brookes's request for a meeting, though, is much less urgent:
"In hope that when he had the wasting flame supprest, In time he
should quite quench the sparks that burned within their breast."
I personally like Shakespeare's play better because the intensity of the story makes it feel more modern and relateable.
