Text: In Bene’s version, the female becomes a creature who does not cease to appear as child, mother, wife, seductress, victim, and warrior in an endless series of transformations. She silences Richard in his famous opening line “for at least fifteen

In Bene’s version, the female becomes a creature who does not cease to appear as child, mother, wife, seductress, victim, and warrior in an endless series of transformations. She silences Richard in his famous opening line “for at least fifteen minutes.”