In Act V, scene I of Romeo and Juliet, the role the Apothecary plays in the catastrophe was selling Romeo the fatal poison.
Shakespeare portrays the apothecary of Mantua as a skeleton - so he appears to personify and depicts Death itself. A poor man, he is easily convinced to sell Romeo the poison that he uses to kill himself.
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families