#lord capulet

[violetarmour]

romeo and juliets driving theme is not silly teenagers falling in love, it is the male cycle of violence and how children will always be it’s worst victims

and the sooner you guys realise that the better

[lesbianrecorderplayer]

One small detail in Romeo and Juliet that I love is that Mercutio is explicitly invited to the Capulet Ball. Why does this happen. How does Capulet even know who Mercutio is. Tybalt explicitly knows that Mercutio is friends with Romeo but Capulet doesn't??? Somehow??? Also why does Capulet say "Mercutio and his brother". I really want to know what history Capulet has with Mercutio. So many questions.

[sparklingrainbowdragon]

Tybalt: My uncle made me take fencing lessons because he hoped that would make me less gay. Now, I know how to suck dick AND stab people.

[thetisming]

& Juliet + alcohol

@fen-the-magnificat

[notasomp]

fucked up world we live in.

can’t even say phrases like “saucy boy” anymore

[lvcygraybaird]

ROSALINE (2022)

And do you promise to care for her and protect her? Mhmm. And do you promise to guide her morally and keep her on a righteous path? Oh, for sure.

[margridarnauds]

12 & 19?

the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

I am not going to talk about Irish Mythology I am NOT going to talk about Irish Mythology I am NOT going to talk about Irish Mythology.

Alright, so, Lord Capulet. Especially Lord Capulet as portrayed by Oka Kojiro.

Let's get this out of the way: Lord Capulet, in any adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, is a dick by the end. I have very little sympathy for any interpretation of the text that puts the onus of the sympathy, in his last scene with Juliet, on him instead of her. What he threatens her with is horrific and it would have been SEEN as horrific by a 16th century audience, we're not playing the "man of his time" card. That being said, I also think that people often remove or smooth out the nuances of his character, especially as a way of making other characters look better -- I don't believe he's abusive to Tybalt OR Juliet, for example, I don't believe that he's exceptionally homophobic, and, honestly, in the Shakespearean text, adaptations aside. I don't even think that he married Lady Capulet when she was exceptionally young and he was exceptionally old (imo, I think that Richard Hosley makes a good argument for her being older in the article "How Many Children Had Lady Capulet" -- She might be in her mid-forties or fifties to her husband's sixties, but I don't believe that she's a trophy wife *in* the Shakespeare even if other adaptations go that route) etc. etc.

He's in deep with the feud, so he can't be truly moderate, but he isn't BAD -- he nearly gets into it with Lord Montague in Act 1, scene 1 (highlighting the intensity of the feud), but then, in his other appearances, he appears to be fairly moderate -- he doesn't WANT Paris to marry Juliet at the moment (in the scene IMMEDIATELY following 1.1, so it functions as a great way of highlighting the duality of the character), he doesn't want Tybalt to cause a stir at the party and even admits that Romeo is "a virtuous and well-governed youth." If we believe Robert Watson's argumentation in "Lord Capulet's Lost Compromise: A Tragic Emendation and the Binary Dynamics of Romeo and Juliet", which I mostly *do*, with a couple of caveats, Lord Capulet even originally had the line, "Not Romeo, Prince, he was Mercutio’s friend. / His fault concludes but what the law should end, / The life of Tybalt", with that line only later being attributed to Montague by later editors (later editors removing the nuance from Romeo and Juliet? Imagine that.) By the time of That confrontation with Juliet, he's gone downhill -- he isn't the only character in the play to do so, see: Romeo's entire trajectory from wanting peace and staying away from the feud to becoming a part of the cycle of violence himself, but he's the only one whose character we judge uniformly for those later developments instead of recognizing it as a development. He isn't a monster, he isn't a villain -- he's a man who does a monstrous thing at his lowest point. Tybalt is dead, the feud is back on, and his daughter is refusing a match that could make everything better. I'm not saying that he was right or that a contemporary audience would see him as right, but I'm saying that I think we're supposed to read his earlier refusal to marry her to Paris and his later insistence on it as a DELIBERATE choice on Shakespeare's part, and a tragic one.

In the 2018 Toho production of Romeo and Juliet, we see Lord Capulet in the general style of the stage musical -- we know he has multiple lovers, that he married Lady Capulet for her beauty and then grew tired of her, that it was a thoroughly loveless marriage. The Capulets are bankrupt, something that he's personally ashamed of, but that is clearly well known enough that Paris openly talks about it (even as Lord C tries to shut him up.) We learn that Juliet isn't even his biological daughter. (Which makes certain things that he does, like not allow her to have a cell phone, make a certain amount of sense.) He defends entertaining Paris' to Tybalt, arguing that he's trying to give him something to inherit.

While also trying to keep Tybalt from murdering Paris on the spot.

When Tybalt dies, Lady Capulet is the one, as per normal, to spur him onto seeking vengeance, taunting him with the reality that Tybalt's been the defender of the family while he's been gambling and sleeping around.

Then comes "Demain". And there are some FASCINATING acting and staging choices being made here.

Starting with the fact that you have Lord and Lady Capulet, in mourning for Tybalt (and, on a broader level, the Capulet family's future) against Juliet's pink nightgown (having had her wedding night with Romeo, with all the promise of a new life). In this production, they know that she's married to Romeo, which I know is controversial, but imo, it adds an additional sense of urgency to WHY they want to marry her off to Paris that quickly -- they're trying to bury her first marriage, especially since Romeo (1) killed Tybalt and (2) is in exile. Does it make them less defensible? Possibly, but it gives me something to dig my teeth into. This is the first time in the musical that we see them as a united front, and it's for this. But first, you have Juliet looking to her mother, THEN to her father, who gives this nod as if to say "I agree with her" and THAT'S when Juliet's face falls. But the fact that she thought she could go to her father in the FIRST PLACE to change the decision indicates, imo, a much more complex dynamic than we usually get in RetJ adaptations.

Like with the Takarazuka production, Lord Capulet then hits Juliet when she says, absolutely, she will NOT do it...and from the way that he, Lady Capulet, and Juliet react, this is something GENUINELY shocking, as Juliet runs off and declares that neither one of them is her real parent. Lady Capulet walks away as well....and Lord Capulet briefly considers running after Juliet before holding himself back, leading to Avoir une Fille.

He admits, to a backdrop composed of pictures of Juliet, that he figured out when Juliet was a year old, that she wasn't his daughter, and he was ready to kill her in the cradle, but then she smiled at him and he decided that she was his daughter in every way that mattered and that he loved her as much as any biological child of his. It's a wonderful moment where he's admitting to something horrific, that's framed as horrific, but there's this sense of humanity to it, as we really see him past being comic relief or a slightly gruff, out of touch older man clinging to past luxuries. He loves Juliet more than his pride, more than his family honor, and he's terrified that, when he's gone, she won't have anything, and so he's going to force her to do this as a way of securing a future for her. It doesn't mean that his actions are RIGHT, but it means that we get to see why he makes them, we get to see his most redeemable traits put there right up against his worst traits.

In the finale, we again see him and Lady C as a united front, again due to grief, with her urging him to go up to Lord Montague, the two of them shake hands, with Escalus fully prepared to put them in the "this is our get along shirt"....

And Lord C is the one to reach over and hug him.

He and Lady C appear as a united front for the rest of the finale, including accepting a candle from Benvolio. Their relationship appears to, finally, be mended, possibly even becoming a true partnership for the first time in their married life, but it comes at the loss of their only child.

I just think, in general, that Oka Kojiro did a wonderful job injecting Lord C with some genuine warmth -- he isn't perfect, he isn't justified, but he's human. By the end of the musical, he is severely broken, and you understand how he made every single decision that got him to that point. The Toho RetJ in general has a lot of great character moments, and it's a pity that people often seem to underrate it or dismiss it (if I have to hear one more person judge it purely off of the costumes without doing anything deeper....), possibly because of the language issues, because imo it's the best of all the RetJ productions for characterization and character development, but Lord C in particular stands out as an example of an ACTOR going above and beyond in a role, with Oka Kojiro imo being severely, severely underrated as far as Toho actors go. When you give the man the chance to emote, he is a powerhouse. 10/10, best Lord Capulet, really captures a lot of nuances that most actors don't get.

19. you're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like...

Honestly? I've been in the villainfucking trenches long enough that there is very little that I actually, GENUINELY hate myself for. Raphael BG3 is slightly more trash than I'm used to, but also...it's fine? I was a Kylo Ren/Reylo girl back in 2015, I have seen discourse and consumed trash before it was even cool. I was surprised that one of my Tavs had chemistry with Astarion, since I've been very vocally critical of aspects of Astarion's character, but...it's fine? It's HER arc? I have a lot of M/F ships, including some that are unpopular because they're seen as getting in the way of a "better" ship, but I don't really care? I've written a 700 word Crimson Peak Incest Threesome fic, we cannot go back from that point. The worst thing I can think of is that I think that Gwydion/Gilfaethwy is narratively compelling, but clearly the author of the Four Branches ALSO thought so, since it's literally canon. I like garbage media, but we've known that for years. I adore Frank Wildhorn musicals (and often think that Frank's been unfairly treated), but that's also...something we've known for ages. Unpopular adaptations? Romanticizing the unromanceable? The dangerous? The disturbed? Kitsch? I'm a Floridian, kitsch is in my blood.

Anyway, moral of the story is that I'm very much at a point where I don't think I have much in the way of *internal* issues, even if I do have my dark nights of the soul re:, for example, whether I'm Actually Bi.

[aesops-art-studio]

the capulets (these are rough ideas)

[canvas-madness-txc]

Capulet: I hate you

Montague: I hate you

Escalus: The move

Capulet and Montague:

[marchdadness]

these are dads from shakespeare! vote for your favorite, or the one you think is the best, or the hottest, or whatever! the winner will be entered into a poll tournament with 63 other fictional dads.

[wild-icarus]

Lord Capulet/キャピュレット卿 (岡幸二郎/Oka Koujirou) Romeo et Juliette Jp 2019 (2/2)

Costume Notes: His “Le Bal” costume is similar to his regular, they give him a golden cravat more brocade like red and black vest and different shirt. The jacket looks the same, but I think they give him new epaulets just for the scene because they look more golden and redder than black and red like his regular costume.

Parts: 1

[rinasunny]

Yesterday I finally watched Prokofiev's 'Romeo and Juliet' and here are some of my impressions (in memes):

Dance of the Knights:

MacMillan | Nureyev

Nureyev's Mercutio Variation:

Mercutio: *dies in agony*

Tybalt:

Prostitutes when Tybalt dies:

MacMillan's Lady Capulet when Tybalt dies:

MacMillan's Lady Capulet when Juliet dies:

Romeo and Juliet after the deaths of Mercutio and Tybalt:

Lord Capulet when Juliet refuses to marry Paris:

Romeo at the Tomb of Juliet:

Benvolio:

[dongslinger--420]

[VD: An edited scene from the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Romeo and Juliet, Act 1 Scene 5. Lord Capulet says "why then I thank you all, I thank you honest gentlemen, goodnight, come on then, let's to bed" but in place of the rest of his line is audio of Sarah Lynn saying "suck a dick, dumbshits!" and he walks offstage. /End VD]

Ok NOW I'm done. Goodnight kids :)

[storyofmorewhoa]

Private Romeo (2011)

Within the framework of this all-male adaptation of Romeo and Juliet there is a freedom from much of the postulating and trappings imposed on the script during the last 400 years since it was written, including for a new depth of character exploration. As this film frames R&J as a same-sex love story, the filmmakers took an appreciated delicacy and nuance in utilizing a character who is now widely regarded as queer. In many productions on stage and screen Mercutio is portrayed as gay either through direct action or implication. Although I sincerely do think that Shakespeare’s textual Mercutio, when looked at through a contemporary lens, is intended to be gay, there is far more to his character than his sexual orientation, and who or what a person loves is not as indicative of character as how they love. For example, I also think that, Shakespeare’s Benvolio is gay. However the personalities of the two characters, and their functions in the play are extremely different.

In Private Romeo, Josh (Hale Appleman), the young man who is identified with Mercutio, has difficultly expressing genuine affection. In one of my favorite moments, he aggressively grabs the back of his friend Gus’ (Sean Hudock) head. Gus, the film’s Benvolio, reaches behind his head, takes Josh’s hand, and pulls it across his shoulders-- highlighting Josh's hypocrisy in ridiculing love while being in desperate need of understanding and tenderness himself. The cadets do not die with the Shakespeare characters they are identified with. For Josh, his role as Mercutio bleeds into Lord Capulet. Mercutio's hostility towards love as an abstract transforms into Capulet's direct antagonistism toward Juliet-- Glenn (Matt Doyle)-- and everything Juliet’s existence makes possible-– love, truth, and tenderness. Gus, meanwhile, becomes Lady Capulet–- following Josh’s lead as he did as Benvolio.

[songsofnoble]

eventually, i will likely do a proper review of still star-crossed because i have thoughts i would like to share :)

[malvoliosyellowstockings]

idk what people are referencing when they talk about how they love shakespearian insults. literally the only thing i can think of is capulet calling tybalt a “saucy boy,” and honestly, i like it that way