The ‘Queen Cleopatra’ Uproar Explained
thewrap.comRacism“Queen Cleopatra” focuses on many of the things people know about her. Her rise to power in Egypt, her deft political and social maneuvering, and the dangerous alliances and relationships she struck in her efforts to gain and keep power, and keep Egypt independent from Rome.
This culminates with her entering Rome’s many civil wars on the side of her lover, Marc Antony, which ended with her death in 31 B.C.
by suicide after Antony’s rival, Octavian, utterly defeated them. The show adopts a revisionist historical take on the monarch, depicting her as a Black woman, played by actress Adele James.
Which means you can probably guess the sad direction this is headed.Even before the show came out, it was subjected to an avalanche of hateful remarks.
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