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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
I think that Macdonald constructs Constance in a manner whereby her sense of modernity is able to turn "base metals into gold" regarding her interactions with Desdemona and Juliet. Constance is...
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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
I think that Iago carrying buckets of filth holds a few levels of importance. In terms of the dramatic purposes, it reflects how Iago still wishes to conspire and create havoc between the...
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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Constance is described as a mouse, and in fact this is the nickname that her students gave to her. It reflects her timid and unassertive style before she embarks on her Shakespearean adventure. The...
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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Swordplay in Shakespeare's original is shown to be the province of men alone. In Macdonald's reinvented version of the play, she deliberately challenges the presentation of Desdemona as a passive...
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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
The significance of the two buckets of filth that Iago carries lies in the connection that he himself makes between his former state and his present condition, which of course represents a massive...
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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
In one sense, there is real poetic justice in describing Iago in this way. He is a character who seeks to profit from peddling filth and reporting it to others, so it is only fitting that, as...
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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Characters in Macdonald's work do commit mistakes reflective of tragic conditions. However, there is an acknowledgement of these errors and an assurance to minimize these. This acknowledgement...
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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Red is color traditionally associated with these symbolic meanings: passion, aggression, desire, love. The association of these traits with Constance are very important. Although she begins the...
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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
The play as a whole, and the development of Constance the protagonist, is a work of satirical feminism in itself. Through absurdity, MacDonald focuses on women's rights and identity, and on men's...
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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
In Ann-Marie Macdonald's comedic play Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), the author refers to her protagonist Constance as a mouse. Constance is an English literature professor at Queens...
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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Constance's red tongue is indicative of her true nature. At first, Constance comes across as quite a passive, non-assertive character; far from shaping her life, she is shaped by it. She allows...
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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Through the course of Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald transforms protagonist Constance Ledbelly from an antiheroine into a heroine. An antiheroine lacks...
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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Desdemona is represented as an assertive, defiant, and confident woman in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet). Unlike the traditionally viewed submissive and helpless...
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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
I think that the statement is accurate in suggesting the mistakes that cause tragedy in Shakespeare helps to bring about a sense of the comic in Macdonald. In Shakespearean drama, the mistakes...
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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
The dumb show that opens the play is one without sound. The dramatic purpose of this is that the audience sees three women, all silenced at the hands of men and the male establishment. Desdemona...
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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
From the beginning of the play, we are asked to "suspend our disbelief", and some may consider this to be gullibility on our parts. However, if we allow the humor and magic of the play to...
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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
In Othello, Iago is an evil mastermind. Angry that Othello passed him over for a promotion and suspicious that Othello may have seduced his wife, Iago conspires against him. Large chunks of the...
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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Constance is thrown into Othello, a play she is familiar with, and the comedy emerges as she tries to adapt her speech to fit in. When Constance arrives in Cyprus, Iago is telling Othello that...
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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
This play deliberately seeks to create comedy out of what, in Shakespeare's other plays, he uses to create tragedy. For example, a whole set of mistakes result in tragic consequences in...
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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
I think that the significance of the ending is to bring a bit of modernity to the Shakespearean conception. The fact that the actors and their costumes are not perfectly aligned might be...