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Juliet was about fourteen; Romeo was a young adult.

posted 8 years ago by JRichardSingleton
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Original text. Romeo's age was ambiguous, but he might've been 16-20.

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[–] sflowers539 8 years ago

Big deal, I was a freshman in high school and I think the teacher described Juliet as 14 and Romeo as 15-16. That was basically our age and we could all relate to the feelings, so it is all good.

[–] [email protected] (2039) a year ago

50 years ago in America, 16-20 is not a young adult. In the time this was written, concept of teenagers did not exist.

[–] emori (3661) a year ago

Yeah. It hilarious how people in USA judge old books, movie by this times standards.

Even this whole "young adult" thing does not exist outside of USA I think. Americans just made up that therm for some reason. For everyone else age 14-19 is teenager. 20 is adult.