FIT FOR A QUEEN

 ,  ,&ldquo,Plenty of glamorous backstabbing, diva dissing and sexual double-crossing&hellip,has every right to claim the name Dynasty for itself.  ,But the title character in Betty Shamieh&rsquo,s bouncy, bumpy comic melodrama is the real thing. A queen, I mean, and not just of the self-dramatizing type. Scratch that. She&rsquo,s more than a queen. She&rsquo,s a pharaoh, one Hatshepsut, who reigned over Egypt for 20 odd years in the 15th-century B C, and the distinction is important in a time when women rarely ruled, at least not officially. (Ancient days, huh?) A subversive speculation on the nature of power!&rdquo, Ben Brantley, The New York Times ,  ,&ldquo,Funny, both witty&mdash,Shamieh&rsquo,s sharp-tongued women lacerate one another and their shared opponents&mdash,and farcical! FIT FOR A QUEEN may have attracted attention due to its election-season parallels&hellip,but it&rsquo,s Senenmut who is [Shamieh&rsquo,s] favorite kind of antihero