Becoming Cleopatra: The Shifting Image of an Icon

by Francesca T. Royster

Book Overview

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 Cleopatra icon by Josephine Baker, Elizabeth Taylor, Pam Grier...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403961093
• ISBN13: 9781403961099
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"