Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
by Anne-Marie MacDonald
1990, 89 pp.
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Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is hilariously fun. Winner of the 1990 Governor General’s Award for Drama and written by the author of Fall on Your Knees, this play takes the main character, Constance, and puts her in the middle of Othello and Romeo and Juliet with very funny results. Plot lines are changed, lines rearranged, and we get to really know the players as never before.
If you’re familiar with both plays you will be in stitches in parts. Lines from the original plays are in italics to help the reader know the difference between those lines and MacDonald’s. Even MacDonald’s are written in iambic pentameter.
Highly recommended — especially for lovers of Shakespeare or those participating in the Canadian Literature Challenge.
Bravo!
This looks great!
I read this years ago and I agree with you; it’s so much fun to read. Think I should read it again now that I’ve seen so much more theatre. Maybe I’ll get more out of it!
After reading “Fall on Your Knees” other books just wern’t doing it for me. I was desperate for more MacDonald! At the time, her only other work available was “Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)”. I loved it! Where “Fall on Your Knees” had me gaping in shock, this one had me in stitches with laughter. Anne-Marie MacDonald is an awesome Canadian talent, can’t wait to read her new play.
Ooh! I love fractured fairy tales and Shakespeare stories in general, so fractured Shakespeare sounds right up my alley. How cool!
This sounds really fun and like something me and my mum would like. Will go hunt it down thanks for the review.
I loved “Fall On Your Knees”… I’m going to have to check this out!
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