You can write your letter to Juliet club here

There’s a movie called Letters to Juliet that includes this if anyone’s in the mood for watching romance.

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Oh, I know who you are Chris Hansen,

but see I calls ya, Chris Handsome

Is Romeo just supposed to be okay with all this?

lol wtf she must be like a hundred by now

My son fell in love with that movie for about a month when he was 3 or 4.

It's like Santa Claus, but if he committed suicide.

See also: Elvis Costello’s The Juliet Letters. Not what you’re expecting from EC.

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I don't think they're that kind of letter

That’s absolutely sweet and equally hilarious

In the original she is 16, but Shakespeare had to go and make it weird.

The ironic thing here is that there's nothing Italian at all about Romeo and Juliet, or any other 'set in other European cities' characters under Shakespeare. Verona might as well be Newcastle.

It's like how Midsummer Night's Dream had shite all to do with Greece.

Closer to 400 actually. Romeo and Juliet was set in the 15th century.

Dear Juliet:

You dumb fuck.

Signed, a concerned citizen.

I don't understand. Why are people writing letters to a fictional character?

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People write to Santa Claus too.

Well, at least Verona can milk it. I've been there, and there's a ton of people visiting the balcony were it all "supposedly happened" every day.

Those are children, these are adults

And quite a good album!

Did they not read the story/watch the play. Juliet's dead

Why not? Human fantasy is a powerful thing.

The original.

The original Romeo and Juliet.

The original Romeo and Juliet...that WASN'T written by William Shakespeare.

In that story...she's 16?

And...and William Shakespeare...rewrote it.

And made her 13?

That's....that's what you're saying?

That would place her 500-600.

Thousands of people forgetting Romeo and Juliet isn't a romance, it's a tragedy.

There's an original?

Funnily at the time the italians married substantially younger than the english... But then Shakespeare had to go overboard with it lol

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.

It's a tragic romance

Juliet should ask for money for her sick grandmother.

She's closer to 441.

...did they not watch the whole play? She's dead. 🤔

Well, and fictional, but stil.

And I live in Montecchio near Vicenza! There's Romeo's castle and a bunch of other villas from that family!

Yeah the original story is from Luigi Da Porto, and follows Romeo Montecchi and Giulietta Cappelletti and was written in 1530, then it got translated and changed and Shakespeare gets all the credit

Return to sender, Addressee dead......

I mean she is also dead, which likely has its own show with its own host, somewhere.

The original story wasn't written by Shakespeare

Meanwhile Romeo's age is never mentioned.

Dear Juliet,

Why you run off with boy from other family? You only 13 and he kill your cousin.

There's nothing unusual about a romance between two 16yr olds..

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Dude, it's a fictional play written hundreds of years ago. Get over it. You're projecting way too hard.

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Shakespeare had to make it believable for the character to be played by a pre-pubescent boy.

>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.

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.

If you've ever sent Santa a letter to the North Pole, there's a good chance it was read by a middle schooler in Interior Alaska. We did not have a cool name.