Composing Lines
"The reason for a shared line may be that the speakers are highly compatible, as in this exchange between Romeo and Juliet about plans for their secret wedding" (Hamilton 238).
JULIET: Romeo!
ROMEO: My Nyas?
JULIET: What o'clock tomorrow?
Shall I send thee?
ROMEO: By the hour of nine
Just by the positioning of dialogue shows and tells more than the intended meaning. Sharing lines is like finishing your significant other's sentence. Because when you can do that, it means you know each other so well, you're in love...blah blah blah. Aside from visuals and imagery, Shakespeare composed these lines to to physically show Romeo and Juliet's compatibility. This style of composition is almost like the film in movies. You've got the typical dialogue but in Billy Shakespeare's day, the positioning of the lines is similar to the picture in a movie.