Lord and Lady Capulet — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Lord and Lady Capulet
Characters
What you need to know
How Shakespeare presents Lord and Lady Capulet, and how the character develops across the text: parents, patriarchy and the arranged marriage to Paris.
The key quotations for this character and how to analyse them, with the context that shapes them.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'My child is yet a stranger in the world', 'My will to her consent is but a part', 'He shall be endured', 'Hang thee, young baggage! disobedient wretch!', 'die in the streets', 'I would the fool were married to her grave!', 'Talk not to me, for I'll not speak a word', 'O brother Montague, give me thy hand'.
Context: a father's authority over his daughter and the arranged marriage, and how Capulet changes between Act 1 and Act 3.
Edexcel's Shakespeare question has two parts: part (a) on the printed extract marks only language, form and structure (AO2), so context earns nothing there; part (b) on the play elsewhere, from memory, marks the argument and its references (AO1, 15 marks) and context (AO3, 5 marks), not language analysis. Say which part each worked paragraph and exam tip is for.
