Imagining Cleopatra: Performing Gender and Power in Early Modern England

Yasmin Arshad has a PhD in English and an MA in Shakespeare in History from University College London, UK, where she is an honorary research associate. Her research interests include Renaissance literature; early modern women and their writing; connections between Renaissance portraiture and literature; and the political and literary uses of Taciteanism. In 2013, she produced Samuel Daniel’s Tragedie of Cleopatra, the first such staging of the play in over four hundred years.