num_pages: 88
description: In this exuberant comedy, MacDonald asks, What if 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.
language: English
title: Goodnight Desdemona
titlecomplete: Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
genres: Read For School, Canada, Theatre, Canadian Literature, School, Drama, Plays, LGBT, Fantasy, Fiction
ratings_count: 1561
publisher: Grove Press