Andrea Chapin asked Robin Maxwell:

Has Shakespeare influenced your writing? How?

Robin Maxwell Honestly, I was not a huge Shakespeare fan, but from the time I was in Junior High I loved the story of Romeo and Juliet. I realized not long ago that in a sense he did not give their love story a full accounting. Their entire scenario took place over the period of about three days. That's why I wrote O, JULIET - so I could flesh out their romance, find out who they were as people, who their parents were, their best friends. I set it in 1444 Florence instead of Verona, as I had already done research there for SIGNORA DA VINCI. And my story plays out over three months.

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