Death emerges as a theme from the opening of the play. In the Prologue, beyond "civil blood," and mention of suicide, the word death is repeated twice:
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,Whose misadventured piteous overthrowsDoth with their death bury their parents' strife.The fearful passage of their death-marked love ...Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage
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