SOURCE: Wallace, Nathaniel. “Cultural Tropology in Romeo and Juliet.” Studies in Philology 88, no. 18 (summer 1991): 329-44.
In the following essay, Wallace analyzes the theme of family conflict between the feuding Montagues and Capulets of Verona in Romeo and Juliet, concentrating on the process of semiotic revolt in which new cultural metaphors appear to replace the old.
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