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.

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

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 31

ISBN-13: 1410347125

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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.

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.

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.

Adult Onset
Adult Onset

Author: Ann-Marie MacDonald

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 0345808290

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From the acclaimed, bestselling author of 2 beloved classics, Adult Onset is a powerful drama about motherhood, the dark undercurrents that break and hold families together, and the power and pressures of love. Mary Rose MacKinnon--nicknamed MR or "Mister"--is a successful YA author who has made enough from her writing to semi-retire in her early 40s. She lives in a comfortable Toronto neighbourhood with her partner, Hilary, a busy theatre director, and their 2 young children, Matthew and Maggie, trying valiantly and often hilariously to balance her creative pursuits with domestic demands, and the various challenges that (mostly) solo parenting presents. As a child, Mary Rose suffered from an illness, long since cured and "filed separately" in her mind. But as her frustrations mount, she experiences a flare-up of forgotten symptoms which compel her to rethink her memories of her own childhood and her relationship with her parents. With her world threatening to unravel, the spectre of domestic violence raises its head with dangerous implications for her life and that of her own children.

A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder [Annotated]
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder [Annotated]

Author: James De Mille

Publisher: Problematic Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1927996031

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The Problematic Press edition of James De Mille's A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder features the following unique additions: * A Foreword by David Reynolds introduces the author and the novel. * Annotated end notes by David Reynolds reflect on interesting elements of the text and reference scholarly works. DESCRIPTION While playing a silly game, four bored yachtsmen find a mysterious copper cylinder bobbing along the sea. They soon discover the briny cylinder contains a massive script, a journal of sorts, detailing the adventures of Adam More, a sailor lost at sea. Examining the script reveals More's incredible story of drifting across the ocean, sailing to lost lands, encountering giant beasts, and meeting truly peculiar people. This is a satirical tale that is sure to entertain!

Foreskin's Lament
Foreskin's Lament

Author: Greg McGee

Publisher: Victoria University Press

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780864730312

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One of the most successful and well-known New Zealand plays is also compelling reading on the page. The power, humour and irony of the language all serve to illustrate a penetrating analysis of New Zealand society, as seen through the lens of sport.

The Jade Peony
The Jade Peony

Author: Wayson Choy

Publisher: D & M Publishers

Published: 2009-12-01

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1926706765

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Three siblings tell the stories of their very different childhoods in Vancouver's Chinatown before and during World War II.

Ana Historic
Ana Historic

Author: Daphne Marlatt

Publisher: House of Anansi

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0887845908

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Ana Historic is the story of Mrs. Richards, a woman of no history, who appears briefly in 1873 in the civic archives of Vancouver. It is also the story of Annie, a contemporary, who becomes obsessed with the possibilities of Mrs. Richards's life. Ana Historic was Daphne Marlatt's first novel, and was originally published by Coach House Press in Canada and The Women's Press in the U.K. The French translation was published by Les ƒ ditions du remue-mŽ nage.