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'''Lord Capulet''', in [[William Shakespeare]]’s ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', is a loving, but controlling father. Lord Capulet is the head of his family and father to [[Juliet Capulet]]. He is sometimes interfering, commanding, and controlling, but at the same time, he can be courteous and generous, as he appears at his party. He sometimes lets jealousy get in the way. When [[Tybalt]] tries to incite a duel with [[Romeo]], while at the party, Capulet tries to calm him and then threatens to throw him out of the family if he does not control his temper; he does the same to his daughter later in the play.
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==Role in the play==
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| source = Lord Capulet's angry ultimatum to his daughter in ''Romeo and Juliet''<ref>[http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=romeojuliet&Act=3&Scene=5&Scope=scene&LineHighlight=2222#2222 Act 3 Scene 5]</ref>
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Capulet believes he knows what is best for Juliet. He says that his consent to the marriage depends upon what she wants and tells [[Count Paris|Paris]] that if he wants to marry her he should wait a while then ask her. Later however, when Juliet is grieving over Romeo being sent away, Capulet thinks her sorrow is due to Tybalt's death and in a misguided attempt to cheer her up, he wants to surprise her by arranging a marriage between her and Count Paris – the catch is that she has to be "ruled" by her father and to accept the proposal. When she refuses to become Paris's "joyful bride", saying that she can "never be proud of what she hates", he becomes furious, threatening to make her a [[street children|street urchin]], calling her "hilding" (meaning "slut"), "unworthy", "young [[baggage]]" and "disobedient wretch" (along with "green-sickness carrion" and "tallow-face"), as well as saying that [[God]] giving Juliet to them was a "[[curse]]" and that he now realizes that he and his wife had one child too many when Juliet was born (in ''[[The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet]]'', he not only threatens to turn her out but to sentence her to rotting away in [[prison]] if she does not obey her parents' orders, and in the 1996 movie he inplies that not even God wants anything to do with Juliet). He then storms away, with his wife coldly rejecting Juliet before following suit. He fixes the day of the marriage for Thursday and suddenly advances it to Wednesday out of anger and impulse. His actions indicate that his daughter's wants were irrelevant all the way up to the point when he sees her unconscious on her bed (presumably dead) and later when she is truly dead during the play's final scene.
==Performers==
In the 1996 film, he is played by [[Paul Sorvino]] and is given the first name "Fulgencio". His foul temper is expanded on to the point of screaming at the top of his voice, and in the scene where he yells at Juliet, he can be seen manhandling her (and he is even slapped in the face by his wife before he shoves her against the wall). However, it is his wife that gets the action going when she says that she wishes Juliet was "married to her grave". After Juliet tearfully pleads to her mother to delay the marriage or move the bridal bed to Tybalt's burial site so Dave Paris would be scared away, her mother says her "''Talk not to me''" line in a cold, emotionless manner before walking away.
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