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O, Juliet

de Robin Maxwell

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Before Juliet Capelletti lie two futures: a traditionally loveless marriage to her father's business partner, or the fulfillment of her poetic dreams, inspired by the great Dante. Unlike her beloved friend Lucrezia, who looks forward to her arranged marriage into the Medici dynasty, Juliet has a wild, romantic imagination that takes flight in the privacy of her bedchamber and on her garden balcony. Her life and destiny are forever changed when Juliet meets Romeo Monticecco, a soulful young man seeking peace between their warring families. A dreamer himself, Romeo is unstoppable, once he determines to capture the heart of the remarkable woman foretold in his stars. Watch a Video… (mais)
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I've been a fan of Robin Maxwell's writing for some time now; having read five of her novels already:

As the title suggests, O, Juliet is the re-telling of the famous tale of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in a novel format with some small changes to the original plot.

Juliet and Romeo both adore the work of Dante, and this forms a great part of their falling in love. They enjoy quoting poems to each other and they clearly share an adoration of the written word. In fact, Juliet is represented as quite the poetess; a quality Romeo admires.

The famous feud between the two families was expertly told and unfolded in a logical and relatable way, although different to the original.

O, Juliet is heavy on the romance and the character's longing for each other - which isn't usually my thing - but is generally what you expect from such a classic tale. This is the only reason I didn't enjoy O, Juliet as much as her other novels, and is the problem of the reader, not the author.

I definitely recommend O, Juliet for fans of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, or those who would like to get to know the family members surrounding the famous couple in a more intimate manner. ( )
  Carpe_Librum | Sep 1, 2013 |
This is a clever adaptation of my favorite story, set in my favorite city, Florence. I thought it started well, and then little things began to bother me - the use of the name "Juliet," when all other characters' names were Italian, the modern dialogue - and I put them aside as I read. I wish the author would have used more of dal Porto's story, especially Romeo shivering in the winter under Juliet's balcony. I did appreciate the attention to detail of Florentine life in the fifteenth century, and placing the action during Cosimo's time, after his return from exile, was a stroke of genius. ( )
  ELEkstrom | Jun 6, 2013 |
I've always been intrigued by Shakespeare; particularly his tragedies, histories and sonnets. A retelling of Romeo and Juliet intrigued me and I knew I had to give this one a shot. The major changes to the story are that Juliet is 18 rather than 14 and it takes place in Florence rather than Verona.

I was not overly impressed with this one. I couldn't really get into the voice of Juliet. At 18. she doesn't sound like a woman but her actions seemed very immature. I can put up with such behavior from a 14 year old, but at 18, it seems a bit much. I wasn't expecting to have such a strong reaction to that though.

Some of the chapters are told from Romeo's perspective, which I liked more than Juliet's but it still didn't mesh with me. What I did like about the novel was that Juliet was quite obsessed with the works of Dante. I love when characters in books love literature. It's a weird paradox, but I do love it.

I do think that the plot of the novel is pretty good and that there will be tons of people who would love this book. I am quite willing to concede that I am probably the exception and not the rule. I also wouldn't rule out reading more titles from this author. I think that reading a retelling is very hit or miss especially when it's characters that I've adored, I'm quite biased to preconceived ideas.
  jennladd | Nov 29, 2011 |
Robin Maxwell’s O, Juliet is a retelling of a story that needs no introduction; I can’t believe there’s a soul left on the planet who isn’t familiar with the “tale of woe” that is Juliet and Romeo’s ill-fated love affair. While Maxwell shows a colorful imagination in putting our famous lovers in new but equally heart-wrenching scenarios, something about this novel failed to fully capture my attention

Removed from the fair city of Verona where William Shakespeare’s famous tragedy is set, Maxwell brings us to Florence, Italy, where the Capellettis are a successful merchant family and the Monticeccos, a more working-class lot, are winemakers. Signore Capelletti is busy wooing Jacopo Strozzi, a successful wool merchant, to his business — and a union with Juliet, the Capellettis’ only surviving child, is offered to sweeten the deal. Jacopo is predictably disgusting; Juliet is predictably disgusted. Jacopo is concerned only with wealth and image, though he can’t be bothered to bathe or brush his teeth. (Did they brush their teeth in the 15th century? I feel they must have.)

Romeo, of course, is Jacopo’s polar opposite: kindhearted, handsome, intelligent. He admires in Juliet everything that Jacopo does not, especially her sense of humor, wit and understanding of the world. Educated along with her wealthy best friend, Lucrezia, Juliet isn’t some puppet manipulated by the family for their gain . . . or, well, she is. But she’s not, you know? Though her father wants to sacrifice her to Jacopo in order to secure the family business, Juliet is determined to fight the match . . . and Romeo swoops in, all good looks and romance and sweet-smelling breath that makes Juliet swoon.

What I did like about Maxwell’s O, Juliet is the fact that she has aged our lovers. Juliet isn’t a naive, virginal 14-year-old ready to kill herself in order to be with some guy. Mature, sophisticated and wise, this Juliet — at 18 — is a writer, dreamer and philosopher. She’s also a woman weighed down by the family’s grief over losing their beloved sons, Juliet’s brothers. She seems less like a petulant child and more the dutiful daughter, and I related more to her predicament than I ever did in the Bard’s play.

My first encounter with Romeo & Juliet came in high school, when we took a round-robin approach to reading Shakespeare’s play aloud my freshman year. I played Juliet (but of course!) and was thrilled when a cute boy in a neighboring seat read Romeo’s lines. That’s the heady feeling this story evokes: that memory of first love and obsessive devotion to one other person; that universal thrill of having your feelings returned. At its core, Romeo & Juliet — and O, Juliet – is about two people who fall so deeply in love that they would rather die than be without the other.

And so they do.

Though I wasn’t satisfied with the resolution and Jacopo was just a little too stereotypically “sinister” for my tastes, I read this book quickly and appreciated the spin Maxwell put on a classic love story. ( )
1 vote writemeg | May 24, 2011 |
Inspired and based upon Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, but set in Renaissance Florence of 1444 and not Verona, and her Romeo and Juliet are a bit older--Juliet is 18 in this story, and the novel's primary first person narrator. (Some chapters are told by Romeo).

Something in Juliet's voice just put me off from the beginning. I think part of the problem is I had just recently read Sarah Dunant's excellent The Birth of Venus, published earlier, and there were several points of similarity, throwing the mediocrity of Maxwell's writing into even greater relief. Dunant's Alessandra wants to be a painter, Maxwell's Juliet a poet. Both tales are in first person from the heroine's point of view, both are set in 15th century Florence, both quote Dante, both heroines are closely connected with the Medici. The thing though, is in reading a lot of historical fiction lately, I've found there are two kinds of authors. Those that are really romance aisle with historic trappings such as Philippa Gregory, Cecilia Holland and Elizabeth Chadwick and those with more of a literary feel such as Sharon Kay Penman, Judith Merkle Riley--and Sarah Dunant. I'd place Maxwell with the first group, and I've been spoiled by the second.

I loved the idea of this novel, especially connecting the legend to the Medici, but the voice just can't carry it off. One reviewer called it "campy chicklit" and I think that's accurate unfortunately. Her Juliet sounds neither adolescent nor a woman of her times, the dialogue feels slangy modern, and the prose clunky and full of cliche. And I think making her a more mature teen is a mistake. It's a lot easier to buy that a 14-year old acts the way Juliet does than an 18 year old. Jacopo Strozzi, Juliet's betrothed, is a twirl-the-mustache villain complete with yellow teeth and reeking breath. Nothing in this novel makes me ever want to read this author again. ( )
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Before Juliet Capelletti lie two futures: a traditionally loveless marriage to her father's business partner, or the fulfillment of her poetic dreams, inspired by the great Dante. Unlike her beloved friend Lucrezia, who looks forward to her arranged marriage into the Medici dynasty, Juliet has a wild, romantic imagination that takes flight in the privacy of her bedchamber and on her garden balcony. Her life and destiny are forever changed when Juliet meets Romeo Monticecco, a soulful young man seeking peace between their warring families. A dreamer himself, Romeo is unstoppable, once he determines to capture the heart of the remarkable woman foretold in his stars. Watch a Video

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