A Bad Movie But a Great Play

I saw a movie last week- Romeo+Juliet, which is a modernization of the classic Shakespeare play. I didn't care much for the style or the acting, but it reminded me of how great Shakespeare's writing was. Take, for example, this scene where Romeo asks the apothecary (which is like a pharmacist) for some poison:

Apothecary
Such mortal drugs I have; but Mantua's law
Is death to any he that utters them.

ROMEO
Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness,
And fear'st to die? famine is in thy cheeks,
Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes,
Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back;
The world is not thy friend nor the world's law;
The world affords no law to make thee rich;
Then be not poor, but break it, and take this.

Apothecary
My poverty, but not my will, consents.

ROMEO
I pay thy poverty, and not thy will.

You might need to look some of the words up, as I did when I read this in 8th grade - but it's worth the effort!