Juliet Capulet's nurse

Juliet Capulet's nurse, referred to in dialogue simply as the Nurse, was a character in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.

In Act V Scene III, she saw Juliet's corpse and that of Romeo Montague when she arrived in the Capulet tomb, along with Capulet and his wife, following the discovery of the bodies by Verona's watchmen. Upon seeing them, the Nurse commented that "this sight of death [was] a bell that warn[ed her] old age to a sepulchre".

In an alternative version of the play conceived to "make dark tragedie light", Romeo and Juliet had not killed themselves and were hiding out of sight in the tomb, being replaced on the altar by a Sontaran clone and a Teselecta so that their parents would still resolve to end their conflict. After the real Romeo and Juliet revealed themselves, Friar Laurence declared his "secret love" for the Nurse during the ensuing celebration. She told him she "did not have suspicion of [his] lust" but that she reciprocated his feelings and they resultantly joined hands. (PROSE: The True and Most Excellent Comedie of Romeo and Juliet)