History TearJerker / RomeoAndJuliet

* Lord Capulet's reaction to Juliet's "death," before she actually does die. Yes, he acted like an ass, but how can you not feel sorry for him?

* Every sweet, tender, or adorable moment between the two lovers become this since you know what happens to them in the end.

[[Than this of Juliet and her Romeo Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet]].

Tearjerking moments in ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''.

* Possibly even sadder than the loss of the title pair is the fate of those who remain. Here's the Nurse, Lady Capulet and Lord Capulet, who loved Juliet so much. They've just lost Tybalt, the closest thing to a child they had besides Juliet. And, having already lost Juliet once (when they ''thought'' she was dead) they have to go through the pain ''all over again'', knowing that they could have saved her if they'd only known, knowing that their poor, extremely young daughter spent the last moments of her life in pain and heartbreak. Lord Capulet has to live with the fact that, in one of his last conversations with her, he frightened and threatened her, expressing that he wished she had never been born, and that his actions probably were what ''drove her'' to fake her own death. The Nurse was in on the marriage, but didn't know enough to save Juliet (and in the original tale, she's banished for her part in helping Juliet). Then there's Lord Montague, who's all alone now that his wife ''and his only son'' are dead, poor Benvolio, who (if he's even alive) has lost his two best friends, and the Prince, who has lost two kinsmen and blames himself for not putting his foot down sooner... take it all together, this might just be the saddest ending in the history of literature.

* The suicides. No matter how cliched you find it, no matter how much you hate the story, no matter how much you want to smack the leads, if your production's Romeo and Juliet are doing it right, they'll have at least a couple audience members in tears.
* Mercutio's death is heartbreaking. Up to this point, Romeo was refusing to fight Tybalt because Tybalt was his relative by marriage. Then Mercutio jumps in, and fights because he thinks Romeo is being a wimp. Tybalt stabs him and then Romeo kills him in a righteous grief. Prince Escalus's reaction is PapaWolf and TranquilFury, as the bloodbath starts. He gets mad at Lady Capulet for trying to defend Tybalt, and tells her that he's fining her family for the loss. Then he banishes Romeo as a CruelMercy.
* Every sweet, tender or adorable moment between the two lovers become this since you know what happens to them in the end.

* The Nurse lost her husband and daughter Susan before the events of the play, and has come to view Juliet as a surrogate daughter (and is a better mother to her than Lady Capulet). She has to come to terms with essentially losing a daughter all over again ''twice''. And she also must realise that she failed her mistress when she needed her the most, and her refusal to help Juliet pretty much set her on the path to her eventual death.