I like this sonnet a lot, and I'll probably come back later with more comments. Meanwhile, I'm wondering if what's italicized and in parentheses are snatches of her conversation -- she's giving examples, out loud, of the "syllable of tragedy". In a sort of a meandering, drifting way. A name comes to her mind, and she speaks it aloud, then a little later another.
It would make sense, because the italicized parentheticals are not quotations -- they don't come from Brecht's song. Reasonably, then, they are also parts of her dialogue. Not sure why the "Juliet" parenthetical isn't italicized, though. If it is the narrator's own example, then it would be better to delete the parentheses.
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