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         <p>Let me bring you back to <date>2008</date>when I was attending high school at
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                  Stout</persName></note>announces he is assigning us to read
               <persName>Shakespeare</persName> famous play “Romeo and Juliet”. I thought to myself
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               we have another one?!”</said>. Every week we had to submit a page of notes from the
            reading we did the night before and I will be brutally honest… I never read it. What I
            did to get those notes was to google “SparkNotes” and just read the modernized version
            of the play and then wrote down notes from certain scences. What was most challenging
            for me while reading <persName>Romeo and Juliet</persName> was the language used in it.
            Every verse was rythmic and it reminded me at the time of how we were taught to read
            poems. Some words were shorten from its original spelling, so I did not want to have to
            go through the struggle of having to look up each one. SparkNotes provided me with the
            modern version of play and it made much more sense reading it that way even though now
            that I realize, it took away the significance of the purpose while this play was
            written. Once we finished reading the play we were able to watch the movie. Which is
            when I was intrigued to read the play because we would have wait a few days until we
            picked up from where the movie was paused in class.</p>

         <p>A few years later, here I am attending the Univeristy of New Haven. Where I was
            introduced to <persName>Pygmalion</persName> in my English course: Digital and Editing
            Literature and was fasinated by mythology. We spoke about other movies and books that
            were written or produced based off of the <persName>Pygmalion</persName> myth. Which
            lead me to watch a documentary of Greek Mythology online. A few minutes into the video I
            heard <persName>Heracles</persName> and I felt like I was taken back 12 years and
            remember watching on Disney Channel <persName>Hercules</persName>. If you want refresh
            your mind on what it is go visit this link - Source "Hercules". Accessed May 4, 2018.
            http://movies.disney.com/hercules. I used to watch this show all the time and there were
            other shows related to this theme or myth. Such as, Dave the Barbarian, The Emperor's
            New School. Each of these shows had such a dominant and hero-like male figure that had
            to prove himself worthy of his strengths and talents. Which is why growing up I would
            always think of a friends father as her own personal version of Heracles. </p>

         <p>This is where my interest for this project came into action, and I came across Euripides
            play "Heracles Mad." at first I thought it must be the same storyline I watch as a
            little girl. Yet, when I started to read the actual script I noticed that the play was
            completely different from what I recall seeing in Disney Channel 12 years ago. This play
            changed my whole perspective of what I originally thought Heracles stood for. This myth
            was used to create the Disney show <persName>Hercules</persName> which surprisingly had
            nothing in comparison other than the names of certain characters. I do not want to spoil
            this play if you have not yet read it or are familiar with the myth of Heracles. Your
            reaction will most likely be very similar to mine but in reality majority of the films,
            books, and, games are re-created from previous works. Some might make a storyline out of
            scratch, but something like mythology has been around for centuries!My purpose with this
            project is to help any new or previous readers familiar with this play to understand the
            text from a somewhat modern stand point.</p>

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Editorial Introduction - Heracles Furens, Euripides Jannina F. Bonilla

Publication Information

Born Digital

Let me bring you back to 2008when I was attending high school at AITE (Academy of Information Technology and Engineering). I was sitting in my Junior English class when our teacher 1 Mr. Stout announces he is assigning us to read Shakespeare famous play “Romeo and Juliet”. I thought to myself “Oh no, here we go again we just finished reading a book and now we have another one?!”. Every week we had to submit a page of notes from the reading we did the night before and I will be brutally honest… I never read it. What I did to get those notes was to google “SparkNotes” and just read the modernized version of the play and then wrote down notes from certain scences. What was most challenging for me while reading Romeo and Juliet was the language used in it. Every verse was rythmic and it reminded me at the time of how we were taught to read poems. Some words were shorten from its original spelling, so I did not want to have to go through the struggle of having to look up each one. SparkNotes provided me with the modern version of play and it made much more sense reading it that way even though now that I realize, it took away the significance of the purpose while this play was written. Once we finished reading the play we were able to watch the movie. Which is when I was intrigued to read the play because we would have wait a few days until we picked up from where the movie was paused in class.

A few years later, here I am attending the Univeristy of New Haven. Where I was introduced to Pygmalion in my English course: Digital and Editing Literature and was fasinated by mythology. We spoke about other movies and books that were written or produced based off of the Pygmalion myth. Which lead me to watch a documentary of Greek Mythology online. A few minutes into the video I heard Heracles and I felt like I was taken back 12 years and remember watching on Disney Channel Hercules. If you want refresh your mind on what it is go visit this link - Source "Hercules". Accessed May 4, 2018. http://movies.disney.com/hercules. I used to watch this show all the time and there were other shows related to this theme or myth. Such as, Dave the Barbarian, The Emperor's New School. Each of these shows had such a dominant and hero-like male figure that had to prove himself worthy of his strengths and talents. Which is why growing up I would always think of a friends father as her own personal version of Heracles.

This is where my interest for this project came into action, and I came across Euripides play "Heracles Mad." at first I thought it must be the same storyline I watch as a little girl. Yet, when I started to read the actual script I noticed that the play was completely different from what I recall seeing in Disney Channel 12 years ago. This play changed my whole perspective of what I originally thought Heracles stood for. This myth was used to create the Disney show Hercules which surprisingly had nothing in comparison other than the names of certain characters. I do not want to spoil this play if you have not yet read it or are familiar with the myth of Heracles. Your reaction will most likely be very similar to mine but in reality majority of the films, books, and, games are re-created from previous works. Some might make a storyline out of scratch, but something like mythology has been around for centuries!My purpose with this project is to help any new or previous readers familiar with this play to understand the text from a somewhat modern stand point.

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Editorial Introduction - Heracles Furens, Euripides Jannina F. Bonilla

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Born Digital

Let me bring you back to 2008when I was attending high school at AITE (Academy of Information Technology and Engineering). I was sitting in my Junior English class when our teacher Mr. Stout announces he is assigning us to read Shakespeare famous play “Romeo and Juliet”. I thought to myself “Oh no, here we go again we just finished reading a book and now we have another one?!”. Every week we had to submit a page of notes from the reading we did the night before and I will be brutally honest… I never read it. What I did to get those notes was to google “SparkNotes” and just read the modernized version of the play and then wrote down notes from certain scences. What was most challenging for me while reading Romeo and Juliet was the language used in it. Every verse was rythmic and it reminded me at the time of how we were taught to read poems. Some words were shorten from its original spelling, so I did not want to have to go through the struggle of having to look up each one. SparkNotes provided me with the modern version of play and it made much more sense reading it that way even though now that I realize, it took away the significance of the purpose while this play was written. Once we finished reading the play we were able to watch the movie. Which is when I was intrigued to read the play because we would have wait a few days until we picked up from where the movie was paused in class.

A few years later, here I am attending the Univeristy of New Haven. Where I was introduced to Pygmalion in my English course: Digital and Editing Literature and was fasinated by mythology. We spoke about other movies and books that were written or produced based off of the Pygmalion myth. Which lead me to watch a documentary of Greek Mythology online. A few minutes into the video I heard Heracles and I felt like I was taken back 12 years and remember watching on Disney Channel Hercules. If you want refresh your mind on what it is go visit this link - Source "Hercules". Accessed May 4, 2018. http://movies.disney.com/hercules. I used to watch this show all the time and there were other shows related to this theme or myth. Such as, Dave the Barbarian, The Emperor's New School. Each of these shows had such a dominant and hero-like male figure that had to prove himself worthy of his strengths and talents. Which is why growing up I would always think of a friends father as her own personal version of Heracles.

This is where my interest for this project came into action, and I came across Euripides play "Heracles Mad." at first I thought it must be the same storyline I watch as a little girl. Yet, when I started to read the actual script I noticed that the play was completely different from what I recall seeing in Disney Channel 12 years ago. This play changed my whole perspective of what I originally thought Heracles stood for. This myth was used to create the Disney show Hercules which surprisingly had nothing in comparison other than the names of certain characters. I do not want to spoil this play if you have not yet read it or are familiar with the myth of Heracles. Your reaction will most likely be very similar to mine but in reality majority of the films, books, and, games are re-created from previous works. Some might make a storyline out of scratch, but something like mythology has been around for centuries!My purpose with this project is to help any new or previous readers familiar with this play to understand the text from a somewhat modern stand point.