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Desdemona

By Toni Morrison
Series: Modern Plays
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Desdemona re-imagines the story of Shakespeare's Othello through an intimate dialogue between Desdemona and her African nurse Barbary. Nobel laureate Toni Morrison brings depth and voice to the female characters, exploring themes of race, class, gender, and love in a powerful narrative combining words, music, and song.
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The story of Desdemona from Shakespeare's Othello is re-imagined by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison, Malian singer and songwriter Rokia Traoré, and acclaimed stage director Peter Sellars.

Morrison's response to Othello is an intimate dialogue of words and music between Desdemona and her African nurse Barbary. Morrison gives voice and depth to the female characters, letting them speak and sing in the fullness of their hearts.

Desdemona is an extraordinary narrative of words, music and song about Shakespeare's doomed heroine, who speaks from the grave about the traumas of race, class, gender, war and the transformative power of love.

Toni Morrison transports one of the most iconic, central, and disturbing treatments of race in Western culture into the new realities and potential outcomes facing a rising generation of the 21st century.

Series: Modern Plays

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350270275

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 September 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Methuen Drama

Illustration: 2pp colour tip-in

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 72g

Pages: 64

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About the Author

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. She is the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Beloved (made into a major film), Paradise and, most recently, Home. She has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction.

Rokia Traore is an award-winning Malian singer, songwriter and guitarist. Her first albums, Mouneissa, Wanita, and Bowmboi are now classics. Her latest album, Tchamantche, took the French Victoires de la musique award for the best World Music album of the year 2009.

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