To repeat: if any of us in the UK had wanted to have our students watch a filmed production of Antony and Cleopatra in which Cleopatra is Black more than two years ago, that wouldn’t have been possible. But yeah, universal.
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And whose plays, like his sources, are written through a white imperialist gaze to which the present-day stage has a duty to speak back.
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I’m sure this has been mentioned somewhere on this thread already, but it’s worth pointing out that Shakespeare’s Cleopatra literally describes herself as “black” (1.5.29)...
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Despite all his artistic license, Shakespeare actually did concern himself with historical accuracy, apparently, because he used Thomas Northam's recent English translation of Plutarch to inform his play on Antony and Cleopatra. The Ptolemaic characters in it are historical.
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Thanks for advising Shakespeareans on what he actually knew.
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