Lord Capulet

• Juliet's dad - owns her until she's married
• changes through the play - nice to mean to nice (instigates friendship with Montagues after Juliet's death) - cyclical
• 1st meet - passive and opened to advice even when mocked by Lady C
• A1,S2 - Paris asks for Juliet's hand in marriage, Capulet responds with 'my will to her consent is but a part', 'my child is yet a stranger to the world', 'let two more summers wither in their pride' - this surprises the Elizabethan audience as he is giving Juliet a lot of power in her marriage which is unusual for fathers in that time
• A1,S5 - playful and charming - enjoys socialising and merriment - nice to Romeo at the ball, tells Tybalt to leave him alone - he calls Romeo 'virtuous and well governed youth' - complements him calling him honest and respectable
• A1, S2 - tells Paris to 'woo' Juliet by himself but in A3,S4 Capulet decides the marriage should go ahead in a couple of days after Tybalt's death- Shakespeare shows how Capulet is wrong, he doesn't give his daughter time to grief her cousin - this ridicules his decisions as a character and undermines patriarchy
• A3S5 - vilifies himself when Juliet refuses to marry - insults her immensely -

  'mistress minion you' - calling her a prostitute

  'out, you green sickness carrion' -

  'out you baggage, you tallow faced'- 'baggage' - burden, dehumanises

  'hang thee, you baggage disobedient wretch' - wretch=witch

  'and that we have a curse in having her',

  'or I will drag thee on a hurdle tither' - 'hurdle' - traitor for execution

  'hang, beg, starve, die on the streets'

  'and you be mine, I give you to my friends'
• says he will 'play thy housewife' - whilst planning the wedding - loves his daughter - the love is reliant on obedience, wants to impress society
• response to Juliet's death is genuine - gives a poetic and moving speech