Capulets

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The seal of the House of Capulet in Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)
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The seal of the House of Capulet in Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)

The Capulets were a fictional Ghibelline family of Verona at mortal feud with the fictional family, the Montagues in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. umdia

This is the house to which Juliet, the Nurse, and her cousin, Tybalt, belong.

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia.

Additionally, a capulet is anyone caught up in feuding with another family in the fashion of "Romeo & Juliet" as used by the character Zanita in The Music Man when speaking to her father, "It's Capulets like you..."

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