Catherine Driscoll wrote:
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> I> England,
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> A lot has been written on this with especial reference to early modern
> England, part. Shakespeare and part. Romeo and Juliet. [clip]
> I will try to look in soon and send something more
> substantive if there's still a conversation on this.
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By all means. The Shakespeare passage always bothered me because it just didn't match what I knew otherwise re Elizabethan England.
And in _Pride and Prejudice_ Lydia comes close to fitting the modern (negative) stereotype of a "teenager" -- except that she definitely is regarded not as a teenager but as an obnoxious young adult (who is apparently expected to remain an obnoxious old adult).
Some English king was a victorious general in an important battle at the age of 16. Sorry I can't remember which (future) king it was or which battle. But I'm certain no one saw him as a teenager.
Carrol