Nurse

Also known as: Angelica · Family: Capulet household · Role: nurse · First appears: Romeo and Juliet · Act I, Scene III

Life events

• Aaron kills the Nurse to prevent her revealing the child’s parentage.(Titus Andronicus · Act IV, Scene II)
  • With: Aaron
  • “Go to the empress; tell her this I said. [He kills her.]”
• Juliet ends her confidence in Nurse after Nurse endorses her marriage to Paris.(Romeo and Juliet · Act III, Scene V)
  • With: Juliet
  • “Go, counsellor. Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain.”

Romeo and Juliet · Act I, Scene III

• ward: Juliet “Were not I thine only nurse, I would say thou hadst suck’d wisdom from thy teat.”
• with Juliet (Nurse is Juliet's nurse.) “An honour! Were not I thine only nurse, I would say thou hadst suck’d wisdom from thy teat.”
• employer: Lady Capulet “This is the matter. Nurse, give leave awhile, We must talk in secret. Nurse, come back again, I have remember’d me, thou’s hear our counsel.”

Romeo and Juliet · Act IV, Scene IV

• employer: Lady Capulet “Hold, take these keys and fetch more spices, Nurse.”
• employer: Capulet “Look to the bak’d meats, good Angelica; Spare not for cost.”

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Extracted from the original text of Shakespeare's Tragedies. Made with Rho MD.