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Goodnight Desdemona (1997)

Goodnight Desdemona (1997)

Drama Literary Fiction

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Year: 1997
Authors: Ann-Marie MacDonald
Print type: BOOK

Description:

In this exuberant comedy, MacDonald asks, What if Desdemona and Juliet were allowed to live? Constance Ledbelly, a tweedy academic, has ghostwritten the papers of her mentor for years, when suddenly he announces he's marrying a rival. Escaping into her research, Constance decodes the Gustav Manuscript, and discovers a pair of comedies that she believes are the source for Shakespeare's ***Othello*** and ***Romeo and Juliet***. Transported into the world of her theory, she comes face-to-face with Desdemona and Juliet and discovers that, far from shrinking violets, they are hellions full of surprises. What follows is a riotous retelling of theatrical legend that brings Constance out of her gloom and straight into a new and confident self.