Lord and Lady Capulet — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
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.
Eduqas's Shakespeare questions don't mark context: the extract question (15 marks) and the whole-play essay (20 marks, plus 5 for spelling, punctuation, vocabulary and sentence structures) both mark response and analysis of language, form and structure (AO1 and AO2). Use context only in a phrase that supports an interpretation, and say which question each worked paragraph practises.
