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Cleopatra is One of Our Icons of "Exotic" Femininity. Sexy, political, and racially ambiguous -- since the time of Shakespeare she has been a central character in popular culture. And, more often than not. Cleopatra has been imagined as the epitome of dangerous female sexuality. Moving fluidly from Shakespeare's England to contemporary Los Angeles. Francesca T. Royster looks at the performance of race and sexuality in a wide range of portrayals of Cleopatra. Royster begins with Shakespeare's original appropriation of Plutarch, and then moves on to analyze performances of the Cleopatra icon by Josephine Baker, Elizabeth Taylor, Tamara Dobson (Cleopatra Jones) and Queen Latifah (Set It Off). Royster argues that the staging of Cleopatra as a "perpetual motion machine of desire" highlights a larger cultural anxiety about women, sexuality, and race.

Author

Francesca T. Royster

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan ; Palgrave

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781403961099

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Art, Arts