Rewrite this excerpt from Romeo and Juliet in modern English:

Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
In the beautiful city of Verona, where our story takes place,
Two families of equal social standing
Have a long-standing feud that erupts into violence,
Where innocent people are killed.
From the union of these two enemies,
A pair of star-crossed lovers are born.
Their tragic deaths finally end the feud between their families.

The story of the doomed love between them
and the enduring animosity of their parents, 
culminating in the tragedy of their children's deaths,
is the focus of our play. 
If you listen with an open heart,  
We will do our best to make up for any shortcomings.