Romeo and Juliet
Lord Capulet
Juliet's father
The head of the Capulet house, a hospitable host and loving father until anyone defies him.
Lord Capulet is a proud patriarch who loves a good party. He invites all of Verona to his feast and welcomes the masked guests with a cheerful call to dance. At the start he even tells Paris to wait two years for Juliet, and he stops Tybalt from fighting Romeo because Verona speaks well of the boy.
Beneath the hospitality is a man who expects to be obeyed. When he decides on a quick marriage to cure Juliet's grief, he promises Paris a Thursday wedding without asking her. When she resists, his anger turns frightening: he threatens to disown her and leave her to starve in the street.
“Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone.”
In the story
Contains spoilers.
Capulet agrees that Paris may court Juliet, hosts the feast, and quietly protects Romeo from Tybalt. After Tybalt dies, he believes a wedding will cure his daughter's weeping. His rage when Juliet refuses shows how he handles being questioned, and he feels forgiven when she appears to submit, moving the wedding up to Wednesday.
He finds Juliet apparently dead and his joy turns to mourning. At the tomb he finds her actually dead by Romeo's dagger. He clasps Lord Montague's hand and calls it his daughter's jointure, and the two men end the feud, each promising a golden statue of the other's child.
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