Lady Capulet
Also known as: my lady mother · Family: Capulets · Role: noblewoman · First appears: Romeo and Juliet · Act I, Scene I
In Act I, Lady Capulet appears with her husband, Capulet, and calls for her daughter, Juliet. She directs Nurse, her employee, to leave while she discusses a private matter, and Juliet agrees to consider County Paris only with Lady Capulet’s consent.
By Act III, Lady Capulet calls Tybalt her cousin and brother’s child and speaks of Montague as an enemy because of the bloodshed. At Saint Peter’s Church, she announces that Juliet will marry County Paris “early next Thursday morn,” but when Juliet asks for the marriage to be delayed, Lady Capulet withdraws her support: “Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee.” In Act IV, the wedding celebration for Juliet, Capulet, and County Paris becomes a funeral.
Relationship record
Life events
- Juliet agrees to consider Paris only with Lady Capulet’s consent.(Romeo and Juliet · Act I, Scene III · 📍 Verona)
- With: Juliet County Paris
- “I’ll look to like, if looking liking move: But no more deep will I endart mine eye Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.”
- Lady Capulet announces that Paris will marry Juliet at Saint Peter’s Church.(Romeo and Juliet · Act III, Scene V · 📍 Saint Peter’s Church)
- With: Juliet County Paris
- “early next Thursday morn The gallant, young, and noble gentleman, The County Paris, at Saint Peter’s Church, Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride.”
- Lady Capulet refuses Juliet’s plea to delay the marriage and withdraws support.(Romeo and Juliet · Act III, Scene V)
- With: Juliet
- “Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee.”
- Juliet’s wedding celebration is transformed into a funeral.(Romeo and Juliet · Act IV, Scene V)
- With: Juliet Capulet County Paris
- “All things that we ordained festival Turn from their office to black funeral:”
Romeo and Juliet · Act I, Scene I
- married with Capulet “Enter Capulet in his gown, and Lady Capulet.”
Romeo and Juliet · Act I, Scene III
- child: Juliet “Nurse, where’s my daughter? Call her forth to me.”
- servant: Nurse “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 III, Scene I
- cousins with Tybalt “Tybalt, my cousin! O my brother’s child!”
- married with Capulet “Enter Prince, attended; Montague, Capulet, their Wives and others.”
- younger kin: Tybalt (Lady Capulet identifies Tybalt as her brother's child.) “Tybalt, my cousin! O my brother’s child!”
- enemies with Montague (Lady Capulet demands retaliation against Montague blood, reflecting the enduring feud between the houses.) “For blood of ours shed blood of Montague.”
Romeo and Juliet · Act III, Scene IV
- married with Capulet “Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed,”
- child: Juliet “Tonight she’s mew’d up to her heaviness.”
Romeo and Juliet · Act III, Scene V
- child: Juliet “Who is’t that calls? Is it my lady mother? Is she not down so late, or up so early? What unaccustom’d cause procures her hither? Enter Lady Capulet. LADY CAPULET. Why, how now, Juliet?”
- married with Capulet “How now, wife? Have you deliver’d to her our decree?”
Romeo and Juliet · Act IV, Scene II
- married with Capulet (Capulet addresses Lady Capulet as his wife.) “And all things shall be well, I warrant thee, wife.”
Romeo and Juliet · Act IV, Scene IV
- married with Capulet “NURSE! WIFE! What, ho! What, Nurse, I say!”
- servant: Nurse “Hold, take these keys and fetch more spices, Nurse.”
Romeo and Juliet · Act IV, Scene V
- child: Juliet “O me, O me! My child, my only life.”
Romeo and Juliet · Act V, Scene III
- child: Juliet (Capulet addresses Lady Capulet while referring to Juliet as their daughter) “O heaven! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds!”
- married with Capulet (Capulet directly addresses Lady Capulet as his wife.) “O heaven! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds!”
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