Question

Read Romeo’s soliloquy and write an adaptation for an audience expecting a modern English update to Romeo and Juliet. Focus on maintaining the meaning and tone of the original by paying close attention to the impact of word choice. Use the various Romeo figures and speech bubbles to show how an actor would stage your adaptation. Be sure that there is a strong relationship between the gestures of the figures and the meaning and tone of the text

Answer 1

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou her maid art far fairer than she:
Be not her maid, since she is envious;
Her vestal livery is but sick and green, 
And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.

This is mainly Romeo's feelings for Juliet.