Lady Montague

Lady Montague was a character in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.

She was the wife of Montague and the mother of Romeo Montague. In Act V Scene III, she saw her son's corpse and that of Juliet Capulet when she arrived in the Capulet tomb, along with her husband, following the discovery of the bodies by Verona's watchmen. Juliet's father, mother and nurse had previously arrived and elicited similar reactions of devastation. 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 respective fathers would still resolve to end their conflict. (PROSE: The True and Most Excellent Comedie of Romeo and Juliet)