Capulet

[kap-yuh-let, -lit]

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noun

(in Shakespeare'sRomeo and Juliet ) the family name of Juliet.

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Wilson said she was interested in playing Juliet's mother, Lady Capulet, as it was a chance to play against type.

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It’s easy to accept Sola Fadiran as both Capulet and Lady Capulet, as the two figures blend into Juliet’s composite parent.

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Júlia Szász played Juliet and Otto Lajos Horváth performed as her father Capulet during Friday's accident.

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The wonderful PBS SoCal/KCET series “Artbound” — which specializes in documentaries, historical and contemporary, on Southern California culture, from comic books to gospel music to ceramic dinnerware — opens its 14th season Wednesday with “Chinatown Punk Wars,” a look back to when Madame Wong’s and the Hong Kong Cafe faced each other across Chinatown’s Central Plaza like the Houses of Montague and Capulet on a stage set filled with new music fans.

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The new variety, named the Capulet, took 12 years to develop and could reduce the UK's reliance on imported beans.

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�� 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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