Romeo and Juliet: A Modern Day Sequel - Table of Contents

Romeo and Juliet

A Modern Day Sequel

Inspired by Shakespeare's Play

Table of Contents


Chapter One: Romeo Awakens

Why I descend into this bed of death,
Is partly to behold my lady’s face.
- Romeo

Chapter Two: Romeo Becomes a Monk

Why rail’st thou on thy birth, the heaven, and earth?
Since birth, and heaven, and earth,
all three do meet in thee at once.
- Friar Laurence

Chapter Three: The Zen of Romeo

Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptized;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo.
- Romeo

Chapter Four: Johnny and Emilie

How if, when I am laid into the tomb,
I wake before the time that Romeo
Come to redeem me?
There’s a fearful point!
- Juliet

Chapter Five: Romeo and Emilie

But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
- Romeo

Chapter Six: Tempting Extremities

Come, night;
come, Romeo;
come, thou day in night;
- Juliet

Chapter Seven: With Extreme Sweet

What satisfaction canst thou have tonight?
- Juliet

Chapter Eight: Romeo and Perfection

I will withdraw: but this intrusion shall
Now seeming sweet convert to bitter gall.
- Cousin Tybalt

Chapter Nine: The Resolute Ascension

O gentle Romeo,
If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully.
- Juliet

Chapter Ten: Hollywood and Juliet

Hollywood is a place
where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss
and fifty cents for your soul.
- Marilyn Monroe

Chapter Eleven: Romeo and Narcissus

You kiss by the book.
-Juliet

Chapter Twelve: Narcissus and Juliet

My love is deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.
-Juliet

Chapter Thirteen: Romeo and Hollywood

Then I defy you, stars.
- Romeo

Chapter Fourteen: Romeo and Tybalt

Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford
No better term than this: thou art a villain.
- Cousin Tybalt

Chapter Fifteen: Emilie and Estella

I do remember where I should be.
And thee I am. Where is my Romeo?
- Juliet

Chapter Sixteen: First Remembrance: Egypt

I have lost myself. I am not here;
This is not Romeo, he’s some other where.
- Romeo

Chapter Seventeen: Romeo and Ed Sullivan

Plainly know my heart’s dear love is set,
On the fair daughter of rich Capulet.
- Romeo

Chapter Eighteen: Juliet and Flowers

The orchid walls are high and hard to climb,
And the place death, considering who thou art,
If any of my kinsmen find thee here.
- Juliet

Chapter Nineteen: Tybalt and Juliet

Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,
That sees into the bottom of my grief?
- Juliet

Chapter Twenty: Romeo and Juliet

With love’s light wings did I o’er-perch these walls;
For stony limits cannot hold love out,
And what love can do that dares love attempt.
- Romeo

Chapter Twenty-one: Second Remembrance: Atlantis

These violent delights have violent ends,
And in their triumph die,
Like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume.
- Friar Laurence

Chapter Twenty-two Romeo Transcends Juliet
and Ed Sullivan

Can I go forward when my heart is here?
Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.
- Romeo

Chapter Twenty-three: Emilie and Juliet

Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
- Friar Laurence

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