Act 5 Scene 2
Friar John – Oh , Nice to see you my brother, hi!
Friar Lawrence makes an entrance.
Friar Lawrence – I recognize this voice, It appears to sound like Friar John. Welcome back from Mantua. What was the response of Romeo’s , Give me his letter.
Friar John – I went to introduce my self to another brother to accompany me. He escorted me there and it appeared there were a bunch of sick people and the officers suspected that we had an infection , the plague. Unfortunately my journey to Mantua was unsuccessful as they locked the doors, disallowing us to depart.
Friar Lawrence – Then who delivered the letter to Romeo?
Friar John – I couldn’t send it, here it is ( giving the letter to him) I couldn’t send a messenger as they thought they were going to spread the infection.
Friar Lawrence – Oh unfortunate fortune. By my brother, This weren’t just a greeting towards Romeo ,it was a message full with important things. This is dangerous that it has not been received. Friar John go get me an iron crow and come back to my cell.
Friar John – Brother I will go and bring it back to you.
Friar Lawrence – Now i must be alone in my cell and think of a solution. In 3 hours Juliet will wake up. She’ll be very angry as romeo has not received the important letter describing what is going on. I will write again to Mantua and I’ll keep her in my cell until the arrival of Romeo. That Poor thing, she is locked inside a dead man’s tomb.
Friar Lawrence departs.
February 3, 2016 at 11:46 pm
This is a good translation of the scene into standard English, but unfortunately because it doesn’t place the scene into a new specific context, it doesn’t yet unlock the “Riff the Bard” badge.
Let me know if you’d like to work on this a little more in order to achieve that work.