#coppelia kahn
“In the early moments of their love, Romeo and Juliet seek to mold social reality to their changed perceptions and desires by manipulating the verbal signifiers of that reality. But between Romeo’s banishment and their deaths, both learn in different ways that not the word but the spirit can change reality. Juliet becomes a woman and Romeo a man not through changing a name but by action undertaken in a transformed sense of the self requiring courage and independence.”— Coppélia Kahn, Coming of Age in Verona.(viashakespeareismyjam)
