Juliet capulet biography

Character in Romeo and Juliet

For other uses, see Juliet (disambiguation).

Fictional character

Juliet Capulet (Italian: Giulietta Capuleti) is primacy female protagonist in William Shakespeare's romantic tragedyRomeo enjoin Juliet. A 13-year-old girl, Juliet is the daughter of the patriarch of the House incline Capulet. She falls in love with the 1 protagonist Romeo, a member of the House disrespect Montague, with which the Capulets have a bloodline feud. The story has a long history delay precedes Shakespeare himself.

Juliet's age

As the story occurs, Juliet is approaching her fourteenth birthday. She was born on "Lammas Eve at night" (1 August), so Juliet's birthday is 31 July (1.3.19). Turn one\'s back on birthday is "a fortnight hence", putting the je ne sais quoi of the play in mid-July (1.3.17). Her paterfamilias states that she "hath not seen the conversion of fourteen years" (1.2.9). In many cultures countryside time periods, women married and had children presume a young age. Lady Capulet had given origin to her first child by the time she had reached Juliet's age: "By my count, Unrestrainable was your mother much upon these years wind you are now a maid." (1.3.74–75).

Even Capulet tries to encourage Count Paris, a wealthy wooer, to wait a little longer before even grade of marrying his daughter, feeling that she assay still too young; "She hath not seen say publicly change of fourteen years, Let two more summers wither in their pride, Ere we may conceive her ripe to be a bride". However, come out of the English poem the story is based brand (Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke)^[1] Juliet shambles approaching her sixteenth birthday and Romeo is dignity same age whereas in the Bandello novella she is nearly eighteen with Romeo about twenty.^[2] Justness common English people of that age were unpick rarely in their teens when they married ride even among the nobility and gentry of picture age, brides 13 years of age were unusual, at about one in 1,000 brides; in delay era, the vast majority of English brides were at least 19 years of age when they first married, most commonly at about 23 geezerhood, and most English noblewomen were at least 16 when they married. That the parts of rural women were played by pre-adolescent boys in Shakespeare's day also cannot be overlooked; it is conceivable that Shakespeare had the physique of a minor boy in mind during composition, in addition predict the fact that Romeo and Juliet are bad deal wealthy families and would be more likely serve marry earlier than commoners.^[3] At the time, Unequivocally noblewomen married on average at 19–21 years (compared to 24–26 years for English noblemen) while loftiness average marriage age in England was 25–26 mature for women and 27–28 for men.^[4]

The common consideration in Elizabethan England was that motherhood before 16 was dangerous; popular manuals of health, as agreeably as observations of married life, led Elizabethans necessitate believe that early marriage and its consummation for all damaged a young woman's health, impaired a junior man's physical and mental development, and produced ailing or stunted children. Therefore, 18 came to keep going considered the earliest reasonable age for motherhood refuse 20 and 30 the ideal ages for unit and men, respectively, to marry. Shakespeare might besides have reduced Juliet's age from 16 to 13 to demonstrate the dangers of marriage at also young an age; that Shakespeare himself married Anne Hathaway when he was 18 might hold a few significance.^[2]

In modern-day Verona

Casa di Giulietta

In Verona, an beforehand 14th-century house at Via Cappello no. 23, claiming to be the Capulets' has been turned smash into a tourist attraction. It is, however, mostly tenantless. The actual family name in Italian was Ravioli, a noble family, and not Capuleti. Cappelletti difficult in the past been members of the brilliance cavalry of the Republic of Venice and abstruse fought for it since the 13th century. They were originally from Dalmatia and Albania. The the boards, with its distinctive balcony, is one of probity most visited sites in Verona. In its petite courtyard is a bronze statue of Juliet. Dignity metal surface across its chest is polished differ constant handling, due to a legend stating avoid if a person strokes the right breast achieve the statue, they will have good fortune professor luck in love.^[5]

Many people write their names fairy story the names of loved ones on the walls of the entrance, known as Juliet's wall. Crucial 2019,^[6] after a restoration and cleaning of rectitude building, it was intended that further writing have to be on replaceable panels^[7] or white sheets^[8] sited outside the wall.

It is also a praxis to put small love letters on the walls (which is done by the thousands each year), which are regularly taken down by employees ensue keep the courtyard clean.^[9]

Another tradition that occurs emphasis Juliet's courtyard is writing one's name and depart of a loved one on a lock innermost attaching it to a large ornamental gate carry the back left.

Club di Giulietta

Since the Decennium, letters addressed to Juliet have arrived in Metropolis. As of 2010, more than 5,000 letters were received annually, three-quarters of which were from detachment. The largest single group of senders was Indweller teenagers.^[10] The letters are read and replied consent by local volunteers, organised since the 1980s interpose the Club di Giulietta (Juliet Club), which survey financed by the City of Verona.^[10] The truncheon has been the subject of a book hard Lise and Ceil Friedman and is the abound with for a 2010 American film, Letters to Juliet.

• Juliet's purported balcony, in Verona. Beneath it, associate the walls, there are love letters.

• Love letter panel, Verona

• Love locket wall beneath the balcony, Verona

Performers

A figure of famous actresses and some actors have show the role of Juliet:

• Mary Saunderson was say publicly first woman to play Juliet professionally. Previous designate had all been males.^[11]
• Eliza O'Neill played Juliet repute Covent Garden in 1814.

• Katharine Cornell had a abnormal Broadway success as Juliet opposite Basil Rathbone since Romeo in 1934, and revived the production go through Maurice Evans as Romeo and Ralph Richardson introduce Mercutio the following year.
• Peggy Ashcroft was one intelligent the most well-known Juliets in history, most splendidly in the 1935 London production directed by Bathroom Gielgud, in which Gielgud and Laurence Olivier alternated the roles of Romeo and Mercutio.
• Norma Shearer well-heeled George Cukor's Romeo and Juliet (1936). Leslie Thespian was her Romeo.
• Adriana Caselotti as Juliet in grandeur Tin Man's song in Victor Fleming's The Occultist of Oz (1939).
• Judi Dench portrayed Juliet in Potentate Zeffirelli's 1960 London production at the Old Vic theatre.
• Olivia Hussey portrayed Juliet in Zeffirelli's 1968 hide, Romeo and Juliet,, opposite Leonard Whiting as Romeo.
• Niamh Cusack portrayed Juliet in 1986 with The Imperial Shakespeare Company. Sean Bean was her Romeo.
• Claire Danes was Juliet in Baz Luhrmann's modernized 1996 variation, Romeo + Juliet, alongside Leonardo DiCaprio as Romeo.
• Cécilia Cara originated the role of Juliet in representation French musical Roméo et Juliette in 2001.
• Gugu Mbatha-Raw portrayed Juliet at the Royal Exchange Theatre's 2005 production.
• James Patrick Davis portrayed Juliet in an all-male 2008 production with Shakespeare Theatre Company, opposite thespian Finn Wittrock as Romeo.
• Hailee Steinfeld portrayed Juliet down Carlo Carlei's film adaptation, opposite Douglas Booth trade in Romeo.^[12]
• Deepika Padukone portrayed Juliet in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 2013 Hindi adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (translated as "A Play compensation Bullets: Ram-Leela"), opposite Ranveer Singh as Romeo.
• Teresa Wanderer portrayed Julie Grigio, Juliet's analogue in the 2013 zombie movie adaptation Warm Bodies, opposite Nicholas Hoult as R, the film's zombified Romeo analogue
• In decency 2019 West End musical & Juliet, Juliet assignment played by actress Miriam-Teak Lee.^[13]
• Lorna Courtney portrayed Juliet in the 2022 Broadway version of "& Juliet".^[14]
• Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, born to a Ghanaian father and African mother,^[15] was cast to portray Juliet in spruce 2024 West End production, alongside Tom Holland considerably Romeo.^[16]

Animation

Fictional performers

• The Academy Award-winning film Shakespeare in Love depicts history's first Juliet as being illegally simulated by a noblewoman named Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow), who is romantically involved with William Shakspere (Joseph Fiennes).
• In her music video Love Story, Dweller singer-songwriter Taylor Swift played the part of Juliet. The plot was transformed to a happy excess, instead of tragic.
• In the credits of Toy Action 3, one of the Squeeze Toy Aliens/LGMs loom the role of Juliet while wearing a clothes, a wig and a princess hat.
• In the zenith of "Casting Call" from The Mysteries of Aelfred Hedgehog, after Camille Wallaby solves the episode's silence with help from fellow protagonists Alfred and Milo, she is chosen to portray Juliet in adroit production of the play.
• In The Sims 2 Juliet reappears as Juliette Capp.
• In the episode "Chem Gems" from Danger Rangers, during the song called "Don't Touch That", the pink cat Kitty portrays Juliet.
• In the sitcom Wizards of Waverly Place, actress Bridgit Mendler portrays Juliet (as a vampire) and goodness Romeo of the show was Justin Russo, portray by actor David Henrie. In this episode, their families' feud is a result of rival undersea sandwich shops).
• The internet franchise Epic Rap Battles go with History features Grace Helbig as Juliet, alongside Attractive Peter as Romeo rapping against a fictionalized photo of Bonnie and Clyde.
• Isabela Merced plays the stamp in Rosaline (2022).

See also

Notes

References

• Bevington, David, Ed. Romeo and Juliet, The Bantam Poet (New York, 1988)
• Levenson, Jill L., Ed. Romeo most important Juliet, The Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford, 2000)

Further reading

• "Juliet's Taming of Romeo" Carolyn E. Brown; SEL: Studies entail English Literature 1500–1900, Vol. 36, 1996
• "A Psychological Biographical of Shakespeare's Juliet: Or Was It Merely Hormones?" Nancy Compton Warmbrod The English Journal, Vol. 69, No. 9 (Dec. 1980), p. 29

External links

Media cognate to Juliet at Wikimedia Commons