Becoming Cleopatra

Cleopatra. Sexy, sultry, political, and racially ambiguous. Moving fluidly from Shakespeare''s England to contemporary LA, Francesca Royster looks at the performance of race and sexuality in a wide range of portrayals of that icon of dangerous female sexuality, Cleopatra. Royster begins with Shakespeare''s original appropriation of Plutarch, and then moves on to analyze performances of the Cleopat...