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Although Cleopatra is described as once being beautiful, her racial identity as an Egyptian and her representation of darkness and a darker form of sensuality is unmistakable. The queen admits this herself, even validating the blackness as ugliness stereotyping -- "Think on me,/That am with Phoebus' amorous pinches black,/and wrinkled deep in time?" (I.5)
But although the North African woman may be more desirable than Octavia in her form and in her height and in the shape of her forehead, any beauty she has is drugging and sedating like the drug she asks for from her castrated eunuch, rather than sustaining to Anthony. Her use of eunuchs, of course, underlines what she makes of the once-great leader Anthony -- a mere plaything of a strong woman. However, this characterization of black women in leadership positions and sexual positions in relation to white is hardly particular to Shakespeare.
In fact, this perception of the black woman...
The assumption of the insatiable desire and curiosity between the races is an old one, and the idea that one pollutes the other is also a pernicious stereotype that even had recent airing over the controversy over an advertisement that depicted a white actress luring a black athlete from a prospective game, in a kind of negative black and white reversal of Shakespearean themes.
Works Cited
Shakespeare, William. "Anthony and Cleopatra." Retrieved online 22 November 2004 at http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/cleopatra/cleopatra.1.5.html
Works Cited
Shakespeare, William. "Anthony and Cleopatra." Retrieved online 22 November 2004 at http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/cleopatra/cleopatra.1.5.html
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