Here is quite possibly one of the most famous and most tragic love stories of all time, written by someone you may have heard about: William Shakespeare.
You might want to get some sort of snack, as this is a long play.
*gathers a group of actors together, who play out the story*
That's not a good Valentine's Day story, Iggy! You should tell them that other one you told me! The, um, one about the girl who crossdresses and has a twin brother... umm... Something-Night.
I do suppose that this occasion would also call for a more light-hearted story, such as Twelfth Night.
*actors go through a quick costume change behind a curtain that reads "INTERMISSION," slushy organ music plays during the costume change, and they reassemble to act out Twelfth Night*
Oh, one of the most famous is the story of Maija, the Rose of Turaida. It's... it's very tragic...
I-It takes place when Sweden and Poland were still fighting over Estonia and I... and starts around 1600...
S-Sweden had just defeated Poland in taking the castle of Turaida... and after the battle, the castle's clerk went searching for wounded... but he found a little girl instead. He named her Maija - w-which means "May" - and she grew up to become a beautiful woman. She had many suitors, but... *blushes a little* she truly loved the castle's gardener, Viktors Heils!
I-It's even said that he hollowed out a cave for her so she could have a place to watch him work in the gardens...! *sighs dreamily*
B-But... then two Polish nobles came... Adams Jakubovskis and Pēteris Skudrītis... a-and Jakubovskis fell in love with her! He sent Maija a f-false letter from Viktors telling her to meet him in Gūtman's Cave, planning to a-abduct her... a-and when she came... he b-blocked her from leaving a-and tried to... h-he tried to... *tears up*
B-But! Maija resisted and she... she said she'd give Jakubovskis the scarf she was wearing - a present from Viktors - a-and claimed it had the power to p-protect whoever was wearing it from injury... a-and she said that, that he should test it on her! A-And he believed her...! He struck at her with his sword... and severed her head from her body...
Jakubovskis ran away, but... later that night... Viktors found Maija's body, and, by some horrible misfortune, his axe was found in the cave with her! S-So he was accused a-and found guilty of killing her! B-But... right before he was to be e-executed... Jakubovskis' friend Skudrītis confessed what really happened: that rather than betray her lover, Maija
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It's... *sniffles and tries to keep from crying* It's such a sad story, but... Maija and Viktors were so devoted to each other! It's really a story... of eternal love!
She chose to remain loyal to her lover even if it meant sacrificing her life and Viktors was even accused of her death!! That's so sad! ;_; Thank you for telling me this beautiful story!! *^*
A romantic story is the legend behind "Ngày mưa ngâu" (continual rain day), which is the 7th day of the 7th month on the Lunar calendar.
There were two lovers: Ngưu Lang, who was the Jade Emporor's buffalo man and a very talented bamboo flute player, and Chức Nữ, who was responsible for fabric weaving. They were so passionately in love with each other, they couldn't focus and do their jobs properly. The Jade Emperor became angry... so angry that he ordered them to live on opposite sides of the Milky Way.
But after that, the Jade Emperor felt sorry for them and allowed them to meet each other once a year, on the 7th day of the 7th month on the Lunar calendar.
... They couldn't cross the Milky Way, though. So, to remedy this, the Jade Emperor ordered crows and Racquet-tailed treepie to build a bridge across the Milky Way. From then on, the bridge has the name Cầu Ô Thước ("Crow and pie bridge").
So every year, when they meet each other, they cry endlessly. Their tears fall down from the skies and make a special kind of rain on this day: "mưa ngâu" (continual rain; a rain that last during a long period of time).
This also is why the people call them ông Ngâu and bà Ngâu (Sir and Madame Continual Rain).
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You might want to get some sort of snack, as this is a long play.
*gathers a group of actors together, who play out the story*
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
IRONIC WARNING IS IRONIC: Some jokes contained in this play may be dirty in nature. Shakespeare did this to keep the commoners interested.
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*actors go through a quick costume change behind a curtain that reads "INTERMISSION," slushy organ music plays during the costume change, and they reassemble to act out Twelfth Night*
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I-It takes place when Sweden and Poland were still fighting over Estonia and I... and starts around 1600...
S-Sweden had just defeated Poland in taking the castle of Turaida... and after the battle, the castle's clerk went searching for wounded... but he found a little girl instead. He named her Maija - w-which means "May" - and she grew up to become a beautiful woman. She had many suitors, but... *blushes a little* she truly loved the castle's gardener, Viktors Heils!
I-It's even said that he hollowed out a cave for her so she could have a place to watch him work in the gardens...! *sighs dreamily*
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B-But! Maija resisted and she... she said she'd give Jakubovskis the scarf she was wearing - a present from Viktors - a-and claimed it had the power to p-protect whoever was wearing it from injury... a-and she said that, that he should test it on her! A-And he believed her...! He struck at her with his sword... and severed her head from her body...
Jakubovskis ran away, but... later that night... Viktors found Maija's body, and, by some horrible misfortune, his axe was found in the cave with her! S-So he was accused a-and found guilty of killing her! B-But... right before he was to be e-executed... Jakubovskis' friend Skudrītis confessed what really happened: that rather than betray her lover, Maija ( ... )
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Thank you for telling me this beautiful story!! *^*
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There were two lovers: Ngưu Lang, who was the Jade Emporor's buffalo man and a very talented bamboo flute player, and Chức Nữ, who was responsible for fabric weaving. They were so passionately in love with each other, they couldn't focus and do their jobs properly. The Jade Emperor became angry... so angry that he ordered them to live on opposite sides of the Milky Way.
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... They couldn't cross the Milky Way, though. So, to remedy this, the Jade Emperor ordered crows and Racquet-tailed treepie to build a bridge across the Milky Way. From then on, the bridge has the name Cầu Ô Thước ("Crow and pie bridge").
So every year, when they meet each other, they cry endlessly. Their tears fall down from the skies and make a special kind of rain on this day: "mưa ngâu" (continual rain; a rain that last during a long period of time).
This also is why the people call them ông Ngâu and bà Ngâu (Sir and Madame Continual Rain).
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this story makes me think of Orihime and Hikoboshi
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