I’ve received your questions asking who or what influenced me in writing my very famous play, The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. My main influence came from the author of, The Tragicall history of Romeus and Juliet Arthur Brooke. Arthur’s poem was published in the year 1562, approximately 35 years before my play was published. Our two plots are both the same, both characters meet and die. Also both take place in Italy, Verona. We both talk about how the Capulets and Montagues have conflicts between the two families. The main male characters (Romeo or Romeus) both fall in love with another women other than Juliet but both fail and both Romeo and Romeus fall in love with Juliet at a party and figure out that she