Scene 1 Act V includes the play’s climax and dénouement. The setting is now Mantua. Romeo does not realize Juliet is in a coma rather than dead as his servant reports. The Friar’s plan has failed. Romeo has not received his message for reasons that Shakespeare will soon reveal. When Balthasar tells Romeo that Juliet is dead, the rash husband immediately decides to commit suicide. Knowing about an apothecary nearby whose poverty will probably compel him to sell poison, Romeo…..
