Modern editors have generally concurred.Swanky society parties, moonlit nights, desolate churchyards and blood-strewn streets. Malone reasoned that the awkward half-line of ‘belonging to a man’ could be reconnected into verse through correction with Q1. This is believed since there are textual oddities such as "false starts" for speeches that were presumably not clearly crossed out enough for the printer to spot. Q2, a superior 1599 printing, is believed to be a more official version printed from Shakespeare's original manuscript although perhaps not with Shakespeare's personal input. What's in a name? That which we call a rose, What's Montague? It is not hand nor foot, It may also, separately, represent a version of the play improved and trimmed after rehearsals for more dramatic impact. The first version of 1597, named "Q1", is believed to have been an unauthorised pirate copy or bad quarto provided to the printer by actors off the books: a memorial reconstruction. Romeo and Juliet was published twice, in two very different versions. Romeo, doff thy name,Īnd for that name which is no part of theeĬall me but love, and I'll be new baptized Īlthough it is one of the most famous quotes from the work of Shakespeare, no printing in Shakespeare's lifetime presents the text in the form known to modern readers: it is a skillful amalgam assembled by Edmond Malone, an editor in the eighteenth century. Retain that dear perfection which he owes So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, What's in a name? That which we call a rose What's Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,īelonging to a man. Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this? Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? The line implies that his name (and thus his family's feud with Juliet's family) means nothing and they should be together. In the famous speech of Act II, Scene II of the play, the line is said by Juliet in reference to Romeo's house: Montague. This states that if he were not Romeo, then he would not be a Montague and she would be able to marry him without hindrances. Juliet compares Romeo to a rose saying that if he were not named Romeo he would still be handsome and be Juliet's love. This formulation is, however, a paraphrase of Shakespeare's actual language. The reference is used to state that the names of things do not affect what they really are. " A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" is a popular adage from William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet seems to argue that it does not matter that Romeo is from her family's rival house of Montague.
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