to think reading Romeo and Juliet at 8 is feasible?

[lolaflores]

Yes, an 8 year old could make out the words, put them in a sentence, but to understand fully the language and meaning....slightly beyond them perhaps. I was confidently told this at a school reunion the other day. I didn't question it at the time, but did wonder afterwards if this could be genuine.

That's bollocks. It's hard and there are great swathes of it which don't make any sense unless you know about humour in Shakespeare's time.