Lady Capulet

Lady Capulet is Juliet’s mother. She married young, and has spent her life managing the Capulet household. Elegant and refined, Lady Capulet seems to have a more formal relationship with her daughter, without the day-to-day contact of the nurse. She loves her child, but feels a strong compulsion to evaluate what’s best for her daughter in terms of status and position rather than personal desire. Lady Capulet says that she was younger than Juliet is now when she got married, and thus she is often portrayed by a rather young woman, who is only twice Juliet’s fourteen years. In other productions, she can be cast much older (the idea being that she had Juliet later on in her marriage.)