twinparadox t1_j8ckw3b wrote
Reply to comment by BaylonTheGrey in TIL The city of Verona, Italy, where Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is set, receives thousands of letters addressed to Juliet every Valentine's Day. The letters are answered by a team of volunteers known as the "Juliet Club." by basictoknow
Yes, that is exactly what they are saying. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is based on The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet, a narrative poem written a good 30 years before Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet is a 16 year old.
p314159i t1_j8ey4ix wrote
>poem
That is the key point here. Poem didn't need to have characters played by actors, and in Shakespeare's time all female roles were played by pre-pubescent boy actors.
BaylonTheGrey t1_j8fhvgk wrote
Based on is not the same thing.
Shakespeare wrote an entire play based on a Poem.
They are similar stories but not the same thing.
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