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There is a scene in William Shakespeare’s play
Much Ado About Nothing where Beatrice, the heroine, angrily confronts her future lover, Benedick, about a man who has wronged her cousin.
Famously, as she recounts her anger in his betrayal, she delivers an epic, anguished line: “O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace.”
It is a strong image, to be sure. For Baylor senior Rosalind Jackson Roe, hearing that line for the first time as an 11-year-old girl at a Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, was a seminal moment that started her on a path to a life in the theatre.