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__On the Persistence of Language: The Cultural Heritage of Latin and Greek__ Serge Danielson-Francois

My wife and I had the opportunity to attend a spectacular performance of //Richard III// at the Hilberry Theatre at Wayne State and we were both extremely pleased with the energetic and convincing performances of the entire conmpany. In particular, Act I scene ii when Richard woos the widow of Henry VI, a man that he has slain, stood out as masterful. I was struck while watching the play performed by this nagging sense of the familiar. I went ahead and did a little research on the scene and realized that Shakespeare borrowed heavily from a similar scene in Seneca's //Hercules Furens// between Lycus and Megara (329-438 on [] ). [I am indebted to Anthony Hammoud's introduction to the 1981 Arden Shakespeare edition of the play for the information that finally put my mind at rest] The scene ends with Richard boasting of his own impudence :"Was ever woman in this humour woo'd? Was ever woman in this humour won?". In fact, as Shakespeare knew quite well,his scene between Anne and Richard was a direct echo of classical Greek tragedy as interpreted by Seneca the Younger, in Latin, for a Roman audience. I have embedded below a scene from the "classic" Laurence Olivier and Claire Bloom dramatization of the scene. TPCK must also encompass the sometimes intangible cultural echoes of disciplinary knowledge. I suspect that for some of our current students the learning they receive today will manifest itself for them as it did for me as a nagging sense of //deja vu//

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