Current Events > Romeo was 17. Juliet was only 13. Why is this book/play allowed in school?

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why haven't they GOT shakespeare yet.

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Because "cancel culture" isn't this boogeyman you all like to pretend it is.

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They are both teens

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Give it time.

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imagine a hs senior (fall semester) trying to fuck an 8th grader.

this is romeo n juliet.

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back in those days, they had 50 yos marrying pre-teens

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g0ldie posted...

back in those days, they had 50 yos marrying pre-teens

I don't know if that was more common at the time than comparable behaviour is now (generally speaking they don't get married now but it's still effectively the same thing)

fyi: at the time the play was written, the average age at which a woman got married was 25

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at the time the play was written the average life span was like half what it is today as well.

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averagejoel posted...

I don't know if that was more common at the time than comparable behaviour is now (generally speaking they don't get married now but it's still effectively the same thing)

fyi: at the time the play was written, the average age at which a woman got married was 25

iirc, R&J was set in the 13 or 1400s

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g0ldie posted...

back in those days, they had 50 yos marrying pre-teens

they didn't lol, at least not in that culture. Idk what the middle east or asia were up to

I'm so bad at history... didn't people live to around their mid 30s back then? At 13 she was probably considered as an adult back then lol

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VipaGTS posted...

at the time the play was written the average life span was like half what it is today as well.

this is a misconception. so many kids died young due to disease that it brought down the average life expectancy.

if u survived age 10, u would have a good chance of living to ur senior years if u dont get caught up in a war or plague.

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VipaGTS posted...

at the time the play was written the average life span was like half what it is today as well.

_Sazando_ posted...

I'm so bad at history... didn't people live to around their mid 30s back then? At 13 she was probably considered as an adult back then lol

because of an incredibly high infant mortality rate. those who lived past 2 lived lifespans very comparable to what they are now.

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Huh, interesting. Thanks for the knowledge

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g0ldie posted...

iirc, R&J was set in the 13 or 1400s

admittedly it's been a few years since I read it, but don't think there's anything that actually indicates the specific time period. does it reference some major historical event?

regardless, Shakespeare's iteration of the story was not being performed in the 13 or 1400s, so the audience would not have reacted according to the ideas of that time period (though the ideas of the 15 and 1600s were likely pretty similar).

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tbh, I was mostly exaggerating, but I don't think it was unheard of for some middle-aged bachelor/widower to reach out to his connects to hook him up with with their young daughter

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I mean

it's also not unheard of for people to do that now

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truu

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Cause if you're both underage, it's ok to bone, some obscure law allows it, was mentioned in one of the Transfomers movie.