Romeo and Juliet: A New Sequel to Shakespeare's play

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Romeo and Juliet: A Modern Day Sequel

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

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Romeo and Juliet

A Modern Day Sequel

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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Romeo and Juliet - A Modern Day Sequel - By James Edwards

2007-08-04T22:12:00.000-07:00

Catch the New Sequel to Shakespeare's Play Romeo and Juliet!

Romeo Montague dies for Juliet and awakens in this age on a volcano in Hawaii where he meets a wise Zen Master.

So begins the opening premise of James Edwards' time-travel romance novel: "Romeo and Juliet: A Modern Day Sequel". Sadly for Romeo, there is no sign of his beloved wife Juliet. As the years pass his memory of her fades. Yet one day, he logs into an Internet chatroom and meets a beautiful young actress by the name of Emma Gallant, who we find out later is Shakespeare's Juliet reincarnated.

As James Edwards spins the hot cyber-romance around Shakespeare's famous soulmates, he draws on themes from Zen Buddhism, Hollywood narcissism and new age philosophy. Explaining why he decided to cast Romeo and Juliet in a kinky cybersex scene, the author explains, "I wanted to place significant social barriers between them, as it was in Verona, Italy. This is essential to present the Buddhist concept of sameness, which states that an individual will go through many lifetimes meeting the same people while working out the same karma."

The villain of the novel is none other than Shakespeare's character, Cousin Tybalt, who is reborn as Johnny Perfection -- Hollywood actor, cad and general nemesis of Romeo. Johnny Perfection enlists the help of a dubious hacker named Fat Sam, who destroys Romeo and Juliet's Internet accounts, thus separating them again.

Romeo must recount his past lives in ancient Egypt and Atlantis, as he searches for his online lover who he comes to realizes is Juliet Capulet. As the story climaxes, Romeo is comically portrayed as both a Hollywood stalker and the legendary romantic simply seeking his wife from Verona, Italy.

"Romeo and Juliet: A Modern Day Sequel" is available through Romeo Publishing Company at www.romeopublishing.com and other large booksellers like Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
ISBN: 978-0-6151-4730-7.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
James Edwards has taught Buddhist meditation for nearly two decades at universities and community centers nationwide. He has studied with a series of Buddhist masters and has written a number of books and articles on computer science. He currently resides on the Big Island of Hawai'i.