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Capulet was a character in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.
He was the father of Juliet Capulet and a key player in the ongoing feud between his family and the house of Montague, a quarrel which ultimately resulted in the suicides of both Juliet and Montague's son Romeo at the play's end. In Act V Scene III, Capulet, his wife and Juliet's nurse saw their corpses in the Capulet tomb after the scene had been discovered by Verona's watchmen. He reacted with shock, exclaiming "O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds!", before noting that Romeo's dagger was "empty on the back of Montague and mis-sheathed in [his] daughter's bosom". Soon afterwards, Montague and his wife arrived and reacted with similar horror. Almost immediately, Capulet addressed his "brother Montague" and asked for him to "give me thy hand", explaining "this is my daughter's jointure, for no more can I demand". Montague agreed with this sentiment and they shook hands and hugged, their rift healed.
In an alternative version of the play conceived to "make dark tragedie light", Romeo and Juliet had not killed themselves and were hiding out of sight in the tomb, being replaced on the altar by a Sontaran clone and a Teselecta so that their parents would still resolve to end their conflict. When the Doctor emerged from the TARDIS and declared that it was not Romeo and Juliet on the altar, Capulet questioned who he was "that dare skulk inside [their] tomb" while Montague assumed he was the culprit who had slain their children. However, the Doctor's words were quickly proven accurate when the real Romeo and Juliet followed him out of the TARDIS and reunited with their parents. Capulet commented "If there be truth in sight, you are my daughter" and embraced her. (PROSE: The True and Most Excellent Comedie of Romeo and Juliet)