How does Shakespeare treat issues of death in Romeo and Juliet In this play? There are a lot of different deaths for the main roles that are involved in this play. For example, Juliet is lord Montague’s only child. He tells Paris, “Earth hath swallowed up all my hopes but she’’ ( 1, 2,14). The prince treats death as one punishment that he, and he alone, can sentence someone to. Early in the play, as the legal force in the play, he tells the Montagues and the Capulets, “If you ever you disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace” ( 1, 6, 86-87). Yet he does show compassion to Romeo when he kills Tybalt who has killed Romeo’s friend Mercutio. Tybalt and his death
