Author: Ann-Marie MacDonald. Published by Vintage Canada, Toronto, ON., 1998. Printed in USA. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, except several line are blue hi-lited inside. Size: 8 x 5 inch, 89 pages.
GOODNIGHT DESDEMONA (GOOD MORNING JULIET) is an exuberant comedy in which the author has rewritten two famous Shakespeare plays, Othello and Romeo and Juliet, and now 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.
