Shakespeare: Video playlist

BOTH: Hi.

ROMEO: I’m Romeo.

JULIET: And I’m Juliet.

ROMEO: And we have been together for…

BOTH: Three hours.

JULIET: And we’re gonna be doing Couple’s Quiz. Eee!

ROMEO: Okay, what a funny quill.

QUIZ VOICE: Who said ‘I love you’ first?

ROMEO: Hmm.

JULIET: Ooh. Okay.

ROMEO: Well, we haven’t said ‘I love you’ yet, or at least not in those words. I said, ‘It is my love.’

JULIET: ‘It’? Okay, I don’t love ‘it.’ No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

ROMEO: Also, I called you ‘the sun.’ Metaphorically, you are the sun, which I love, by the way. Also, I said, ‘Her eyes were two of the fairest stars in all the heaven.’

JULIET: Aww, isn’t he so sweet?

ROMEO: I love you.

JULIET: I love you.

BOTH: I love you.

ROMEO: My favourite bit about this is just…

JULIET: You.

ROMEO: Yeah.

JULIET: Ah!

VOICE: What is Romeo’s surname?

JULIET: Ooh. Okay, toughie. Okay. Um…

ROMEO: I know it.

JULIET: Yeah, of course you do. Um… do I know this?

ROMEO: You know it.

JULIET: Do I know this?

ROMEO: I think you know it.

JULIET: I don’t think I do.

ROMEO: I did call you ‘good pilgrim’ that one time, yeah?

JULIET: I don’t know if it’s right, but… pilgrim?

ROMEO: Montague.

JULIET: Oh, Montague. Of course.

ROMEO: Montague.

JULIET: Montague.

ROMEO: Yeah.

JULIET: Montague.

ROMEO: Is that okay?

JULIET: Like…

ROMEO: Yeah, Montague. Is it a problem?

JULIET: I mean, my only love sprung from my only hate.

ROMEO: Oh yeah, our families do kind of low-key have beef… like generational.

JULIET: But then again, what’s Montague?

ROMEO: It’s my surname.

JULIET: No, no, no, no. I mean like, what’s in a name?

ROMEO: Letters.

JULIET: No, babe, what does it mean, really? I mean, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

ROMEO: She is very bright.

JULIET: Eee! Isn’t she?

ROMEO: Like the sun!

JULIET: Thank you. You’ll need to explain that to me later.

ROMEO: I will. But I love the sounds.

QUIZ VOICE: What is Juliet’s love language?

ROMEO: Oh…mm…Okay.

BOTH: Ready? Via Friar.

JULIET: Uh, but crucially not a reliable one.

ROMEO: Yeah, you can trust a friar, but they’re not always punctual.

JULIET: Mm-mm. Like if it’s an urgent, probably ill-fated message…

ROMEO: You’re looking at three to five working days.

JULIET: And that’s literally like a lifetime for us.

QUIZ VOICE: Juliet, you call Romeo ‘Him that is renowned for faith.’ Who did Romeo call ‘the devout religion of mine eye’?

JULIET: Okay. Easy.

ROMEO: Easy. Yeah, we’ve got this.

JULIET: Make it harder.

ROMEO: Yeah.

BOTH: Three, two, one. Ah!

ROMEO: We are so in sync.

JULIET: We are so in sync.

QUIZ VOICE: Actually, Romeo, you were talking about Rosaline.

ROMEO: Who?

QUIZ VOICE: The girl you were in love with before Juliet. Rosaline.

ROMEO: I have forgot that name.

JULIET: Rosaline? My cousin Rosaline?

ROMEO: Oh. Yes. Your cousin. No, I… no, I do remember. I was in love with her, yeah. But that was like three hours ago. It’s ancient history. Like, babe, I swear by the moon.

JULIET: The moon? The inconstant moon?

ROMEO: Well, what shall I swear by?

JULIET: Do not swear at all.

BOTH: Oh. Our first fight.

JULIET: Aww.

QUIZ VOICE: Is this moving too fast?

JULIET: Too fast? We just got married!

ROMEO: Yay!

JULIET: Wait, what’s the question?

ROMEO: Yeah, they’re asking if it’s moving too fast.

JULIET: Love’s heralds should be thoughts, which ten times faster glide than the sun’s beams.

JULIET: AKA… love is fast.

ROMEO: It is, my love.

JULIET: Okay, can we not do the ‘it’ thing though, please?

ROMEO: No, it’s like the sun.

JULIET: I just don’t love it.

ROMEO: It’s like the sun.

QUIZ VOICE: Do you think this is going to end badly?

ROMEO: Mm, what makes you say that?

FRIAR: I mean, we’re all talking about it, to be fair. Like, just a few examples. ‘A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.’ ‘Death-mark’d love.’ ‘With their death bury their parents’ strife.’ I mean, this is literally on page one.

ROMEO: You know what I say to that? Love-devouring death do what he dare.

FRIAR: Yeah, this is exactly what we’re talking about.

ROMEO: I defy you stars!

FRIAR: Are we hearing ourself? This is why we think you’re doomed.

JULIET: What, like when I said, ‘My grave is like to be my wedding bed’?

ROMEO: That’s just a figure of speech.

JULIET: Yeah, just a figure of speech.

ROMEO: Yeah. Like, ‘Come, death and welcome, Juliet wills it so.’ It’s classic love stuff.

QUIZ VOICE: Have you guys ever heard of foreshadowing?

BOTH: No.

JULIET: Like I said, we’re not worried.

ROMEO: Yeah, we’re just seeing where it goes really.

JULIET: I do kind of keep having this quite violent vision of you as one dead at the bottom of a tomb though.

ROMEO: Huh.

JULIET: Yeah.

ROMEO: Classic love stuff.

JULIET: Yeah.

ROMEO: Like when I dreamt that my lady came and found me dead.

JULIET: What, Rosaline?

ROMEO: Oh, that was literally three hours ago, she didn’t even like me back. I knew you wouldn’t let this go.

JULIET: You know me so well.

ROMEO: Mm.

JULIET: Eee!

ROMEO: So, what’s your surname?