Capulet
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What does Capulet mean? Capulet is the family name of the character Juliet from William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. Juliet is the daughter of Lord and Lady Capulet. The house of Capulet is in a bitter feud with the house of Montague for reasons never revealed in the play. Other characters on the side of the Capulets include Lady Capulet’s nephew Tybalt, Juliet’s unnamed nurse, and the servants Sampson and Gregory. In the play, Romeo falls in love with Juliet Capulet at first sight. Because of the feud, they meet in secret and eventually secretly get married. Later, Romeo is exiled from the city after killing Juliet’s cousin Tybalt out of revenge for Tybalt’s accidental killing of Mercutio. Hearing of Romeo’s exile, Juliet devises a plan in which she fakes her own death so that she can meet Romeo in the Capulet family tomb. However, Romeo believes Juliet to actually be dead and kills himself with poison to join her in the afterlife. Upon discovering that Romeo is dead, Juliet stabs herself to death. The deaths of their children cause Lord Montague and Lord Capulet to end their feud.
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Other Shakespeare characters given musical attention by Prokofiev—such as the heads of the Capulet and Montague families, Juliet’s Nurse, Friar Lawrence and Paris—are not found here.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026
It’s easy to accept Sola Fadiran as both Capulet and Lady Capulet, as the two figures blend into Juliet’s composite parent.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2024
Júlia Szász played Juliet and Otto Lajos Horváth performed as her father Capulet during Friday's accident.
From BBC • Nov. 13, 2023
And while she loves playing Lady Capulet, “I’ve had the dream of playing Juliette.”
From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2022
All went tolerably well until, in the last scene of the third act, Capulet and I^adv Capulet began to bully Juliet to marry Paris.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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