Lady c

• Lady: By my count, I was your mother much upon these years. That you are now a maid.

  - she is traditional as she married a much older man when she was young
• He is a kingsman to the montague(benvolio) Romeo must not live.


  lady capulet is presented as manipulative (act 3 scene 1)

  - accuses Benvolio of lying

  - she lies and says that 20 people killed him, wnating to make him seem like a victim

  - modal vern "must" is used to manipulate the prince to kill Romeo

  - many strategies show she is a skilled manipulator
• Evermore weeping for your cousins death? What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears?

  Lady (act 3 scene 5)

  - presents her as unsympathetic, mocking her daughter for crying

  - adverb "evermore" shows that she thinks it's ridiculous that she is crying about her cousin's death

  - makes a joke, she doesn't care about her daughter's emotions. not a good mother

  - suggests her sadness of Tybalt's in act 3 scene 1 was and act
• Is she not proud? Doth she not count her blessed, Unworthy that she is that we have wrought


  - capulet expects to be obeyed

  - he is confused by her refusal to marry paris
• Tell him yourself 


  Posessive pronoun ‘your’

  Shows Lady fears Capulet and portrays her as weak scared more for herself than her daughter
• Nurse, Come back again


  Unable to look after own daughter

  relying on staff presents as incapable character

  However stereotypical wealth Elizabethan women
• I have done with thee


  Seperation between mother and daughter

  Unemotional address Lady c uses when talking to Juliet

  Seen as normal for Elizabethan audience