In other words, it has been at least thirty years. If the normal age for wearing masks/courting is late teens through late twenties, as is the case with Romeo and Paris, then this would make Capulet between about forty-eight and fifty-eight.

Is Lord Capulet old?

Lord Capulet is probably around his late fifties to early sixties in the play. He is the parent of Juliet, who is a young teenaged girl in the play.

How old does Capulet say Juliet is?

In this work, Juliet is a young girl of 16, while Romeo is somewhat older. Shakespeare cuts three years off Juliet’s age to make her the tender age of 13: as Old Capulet says to Paris, ‘she hath not seen the change of fourteen years’.