Is there any graphic or gruesome imagery in the play Romeo and Juliet?

Answer 1

If you really want graphic and gruesome in a Shakespeare play, you should check out Titus Andronicus. But even Romeo and Juliet has its moments. Like in Act 1 Scene 1:

Sampson: 'Tis all one. I will show myself a tyrant. When I have fought with the men I will be cruel with the maids--I will cut off their heads.

Gregory: The heads of the maids?

Sampson: Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads. Take it in what sense thou wilt.

Or Act 3 Scene 2

Nurse: I saw the wound, I saw it with mine eyes,

(God save the mark!) here on his manly breast.

A piteous corse, a bloody piteous corse,

Pale, pale as ashes, all bedaubed in blood,

All in gore-blood.

Or Act 4 Scene 3

Juliet: Oh, if I wake shall I not be distraught,

Environed with all these hideous fears,

And madly play with my forefathers' joints

And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud,

And, in this rage, with some great kinsman's bone

As with a club dash out my desp'rate brains.