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    A Study Guide for Ann-Marie MacDonald's "Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)"
    A Study Guide for Ann-Marie MacDonald's "Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)"
    A Study Guide for Ann-Marie MacDonald's "Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)"
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    A Study Guide for Ann-Marie MacDonald's "Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)"

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    A Study Guide for Ann-Marie MacDonald's "Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 12, 2016
    ISBN9781535824071
    A Study Guide for Ann-Marie MacDonald's "Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)"

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      A Study Guide for Ann-Marie MacDonald's "Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)" - Gale

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      Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)

      Ann-Marie MacDonald

      1988

      Introduction

      The actor, playwright, and novelist Ann-Marie MacDonald has earned a reputation as one of Canada's most exciting contemporary voices. Since the production of her first solo play, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), she has become widely known and revered in the theatrical and literary world. In fact, the success of Mac-Donald's first play was key in identifying her as a socially conscious feminist as well as a witty writer with wide popular appeal.

      First performed in Toronto in 1988, Goodnight Desdemona is the story of Constance Ledbelly, a quirky and absentminded academic who is writing a doctoral thesis about two of William Shakespeare's tragedies. Suddenly, Constance finds herself transported into the worlds of Romeo and Juliet and Othello, where she interferes with the plot, gets to know the characters, and discovers her true identity. With its witty allusions to late-sixteenth-century English culture, its use of Elizabethan dramatic conventions, and its playful reimagining of some of Shakespeare's most enduring characters, Goodnight Desdemona amuses its audience and brings the Elizabethan period to life. It also provides a thoughtful commentary on such issues as feminism, academia, Elizabethan values, and the nature of tragedy. The play was revised in 1990, and a revised paperback edition is available from Grove Press (1998).

      Author Biography

      Born on an army base in West Germany in 1956, MacDonald was the daughter of a Lebanese woman and a Canadian soldier of Scottish heritage. She grew up with two sisters and one brother in a strict Catholic family that moved several times before settling in Ottawa, Canada. MacDonald was a high-achieving student, and her parents encouraged her to study law, but instead she left Carleton University in Minnesota to attend the National Theatre School in Montreal. After graduation, MacDonald moved to Toronto and became involved in collaborative theater projects, including This Is for You, Anna (1984). While living in Toronto, MacDonald came out as

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