A Tale of Two Star Crossed Lovers

Okay, has anyone else read the prologue to Romeo and Juliet yet? I love it! I read it after we got the study guide. I love the way that it is worded and how Shakespeare tells us about the two "star-crossed lovers" and there sad fate. When you read the prologue you may think that he is ruining the story for you but as read on you discover that you will always hope that the lovers wont meet their sad, sad fate at the end. Even if you haven't read the play I think everyone knows what happens and whats cool is that you can see what happens in the prologue! I love stories or plays like that were either they tell you what happens or they do a loop, like in Mockingbird. In Mockingbird Harper Lee starts at the end then retells the story. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare starts off by telling you what happens. I just think that's pretty neat.

What do you think?

Do you like the way that Romeo and Juliet begins?

Or would you have wanted to find out by reading what happens to these "two star-crossed lovers"?

"Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
\Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend."