Hey #ShakeRace does the blackening that was part of court entertainments from H8-James1 count as blackface or does blackface have ideological underpinnings that are void here? #AskingForAFriend #ThatFriendIsMe
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @DrDadabhoy
Great question! think Ania is right that they both are at heart ways of consolidating and praising whiteness. but don’t want to erase the very specific denigrations of blackness (and disability?) embedded in American form’s origins.
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @ProfKFH
Absolutely. I’m working on the context of Antony and Cleopatra and want to say that there’s a deliberate choice to make her black but it’s not minstrelsy. Does that make sense?
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @DrDadabhoy ja @ProfKFH
Shakespeare was well aware that Cleopatra VII Philopator was a (Macedonian) Greek of the Ptolemaic dynasty because he read Thomas North's English translation of Roman historian Plutarch's work (in Greek), so calling Cleo "tawny" seems like a circumstantial literary device.pic.twitter.com/gznZn6cfwK
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @ArmaOrientalis ja @ProfKFH
Maybe Shakespeare was trying to do something that was historically inaccurate? She’s not just tawny but pinched black by Phoebus’ amorous pinches? Thanks for this.
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @DrDadabhoy ja @ProfKFH
I't's hard to read Shakespeare's mind, but I do recall Prudence Jones quoting some Afrocentric writer about this in "Cleopatra: a sourcebook" (2006, University of Oklahoma Press). Cleopatra's skin tone is perhaps symbolic or a projection of 17th c. European ideas about Egyptians?
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...it's even stranger when you consider that this is generally how most Europeans in and around the lifetime of Shakespeare thought Cleopatra had looked. One of the paintings below by Alessandro Turchi in 1640 even emphasizes the Hellenistic Greek nature of Alexandrian setting:pic.twitter.com/k5uyFSlzxy
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That emphasis on her white skin though seems emblematic if an anxiety that the Ptolemys were not as white as N Europeans were. I’m interested in how and why the ancient world and geography get raced.
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