Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (Play)
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (Play)

Author: Ann-Marie MacDonald

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Published: 2012-10-23

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 0307366332

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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is an exuberant comedy and feminist revisioning of Shakespeare’s Othello and Romeo and Juliet. It takes us from a dusty office in Canada’s Queen’s University, into the fraught and furious worlds of two of Shakespeare’s best-known tragedies, and turns them upside-down. Constance Ledbelly is the beleaguered “spinster” academic, and unlikely heroine who embarks on a quest for Shakespearean origins and, ultimately, her own identity. When she deciphers an ancient and neglected manuscript, Constance is propelled through a very modern rabbit hole and lands smack in the middle of the tragic turning points of each play in turn. Her attempts to save first Desdemona, then Juliet, from their harrowing fates, result in a wild unpredictable ride through comedy and near-tragedy, as mild-mannered Constance learns to love, sword-fight, dance Renaissance-style, and master a series of disguises… Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) a gender-bendy, big-hearted and crazily intelligent romp, where irony and anger sing in perfect harmony with innocence and poignancy.

Goodnight Desdemona (good Morning Juliet)
Goodnight Desdemona (good Morning Juliet)

Author: Ann-Marie MacDonald

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 9780802135773

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When ghostwriter Constance Ledbelly's mentor marries a rival, Constance embarks on a "what-if" writing spree that brings her face-to-face with literary characters Desdemona and Juliet. What follows is a riotous retelling of theatrical legend that brings Constance renewed self-confidence--and that won playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald awards and accolades.

Fall On Your Knees
Fall On Your Knees

Author: Ann-Marie MacDonald

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-01-25

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 1451641656

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The Piper family is steeped in secrets, lies, and unspoken truths. At the eye of the storm is one secret that threatens to shake their lives -- even destroy them. Set on stormy Cape Breton Island off Nova Scotia, Fall on Your Knees is an internationally acclaimed multigenerational saga that chronicles the lives of four unforgettable sisters. Theirs is a world filled with driving ambition, inescapable family bonds, and forbidden love. Compellingly written, by turns menacingly dark and hilariously funny, this is an epic tale of five generations of sin, guilt, and redemption.

Desdemona
Desdemona

Author: Toni Morrison

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2024-06-13

Total Pages: 69

ISBN-13: 135042899X

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'This is a remarkable, challenging and bravely original work.' The Guardian Ripped from the world by her husband's paranoia, Desdemona turns in death towards the memory of Barbary, the North African maid who raised her: together, they explore the contours of death, race, war, love and motherhood, in a moving elegy. Audacious with ambition, Desdemona is Toni Morrison's intimate reimagining of the fourth act of Shakespeare's Othello, mixing monologue with Rokia Traore's lyrical songs to re-examine the Bard's presentation of race and female suffering. Part-play, part-concert, part-quest into the afterlife, Desdemona is published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, featuring a new introduction by Joyce Green MacDonald.

Rough Magic
Rough Magic

Author: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780822223320

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THE STORY: Transplanting characters from The Tempest to present-day New York, ROUGH MAGIC is a Shakespearean action-adventure-fantasy in the tradition of Harry Potter and The X-Men that conjures a mythical, magical meta-universe in which the

The Way the Crow Flies
The Way the Crow Flies

Author: Ann-Marie MacDonald

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 756

ISBN-13: 0007171722

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Madeleine learns about the ambiguity of human morality when a murder occurs on the air force base where she lives as a child and the lessons are reinforced years later when the search for the killer is renewed.

People who Led to My Plays
People who Led to My Plays

Author: Adrienne Kennedy

Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou

Published: 1996-07

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9781559361255

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A revealing collection of words, memories and pictures-an autobiographical scrapbook--by an outstanding contemporary playwright.

Classical Comedy
Classical Comedy

Author: Aristophanes

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2006-09-28

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 0141959487

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From the fifth to the second century BC, innovative comedy drama flourished in Greece and Rome. This collection brings together the greatest works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays: Aristophanes' bold, imaginative Birds, and Menander's The Girl from Samos, which explores popular contemporary themes of mistaken identity and sexual misbehaviour; and two later Roman comic plays: Plautus' The Brothers Menaechmus - the original comedy of errors - and Terence's bawdy yet sophisticated double love-plot, The Eunuch. Together, these four plays demonstrate the development of Classical comedy, celebrating its richness, variety and extraordinary legacy to modern drama.

The Book of Will
The Book of Will

Author: Lauren Gunderson

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 2018-06-18

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 0822237725

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Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare’s plays forever! After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that shaped their lives. They’ll just have to borrow, beg, and band together to get it done. Amidst the noise and color of Elizabethan London, THE BOOK OF WILL finds an unforgettable true story of love, loss, and laughter, and sheds new light on a man you may think you know.

Elizabeth Rex
Elizabeth Rex

Author: Timothy Findley

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Published: 2003-04-27

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9780006392538

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Based on the original stage production at the Stratford Festival of Canada, directed by Martha Henry. In this daring and original production of Timothy Findley's Governor-General Award winning play, William Shakespeare and the formidable Virgin Queen, Elizabeth I, are brought together in a remarkable encounter on the night of April 22, 1616. The night the Queen's Lover will be executed, by the Queen's decree.