agrees, "More significantly, the false report that the boy receives of the girl's death is carried by Anita through the gang as a willful act, not as an unfortuitous happenstance, such as befell Romeo because of the erroneous information Balthasar conveyed and the prevention of Friar John's delivery of the secret of Juliet's feigned death" (p.10) The greatest alterations in the plot of West
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