How does Shakespeare prepare us for the firstMeeting of the lovers?

“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star cross’d lovers take their life with misadventur’d piteous overthrows doth with their death bury their parents strife”, The ancient grudge between the Montague’s and the Capulet’s, summed up in four lines. The play of tragedy created by Shakespeare of two lovers Romeo and Juliet who meet and fall in love. The first lines of the play, known as the prologue, tell the audience what happens in the play, Shakespeare has written it like this to hook the audience into wanting to watch the rest of the play.

In the opening scene there is a huge fight, this brings contrast to the next scene with Romeo in “ay me, sad hours seem long“ this scene is much more calm than the fight scene at the beginning of the play. The fuss on the stage with all the fighting is very different from the lovers meeting the fight scene also shows how big the feud between the two families is. This makes the audience enjoy the scene more, as a...