Goodnight Desdemona (Good morning Juliet), written in 1998 by the Canadian playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald. This play draws heavily on Shakespeare’s Othello and Romeo and Juliet. As the main character in this play, Constance conceives that Shakespeare’s tragedies, Othello and Romeo and Juliet were initially comedies, and accept as true the ideas for the plays devise from the illegible Gustav Manuscript, she will be able to prove that Shakespeare made the comedic plays into tragedies. “Do you think she is successful in her attempt? And does Constance herself think she is successful?” Yes, she does. With my knowledge of understanding the plays, I’ll probably guaranteed that Constance is successful, she has found her true identity by compared …show more content…
At the beginning of the play, Constance is treated as “little value” by Professor Night Claude. She does not speak up for herself when he treats her dreadfully “Oh I’m not, I’m, I’m not the least bit special, I’m, I’m just one flawed and isolated fragment of a perfect infinite mind like anybody else”(MacDonald 16). She herself believe that she is insignificant and worthless. In the past, the only one thing she confident which is her capability to write, we can see that Constance was unsuccessful, she did not know her true value and her real personality. During her time in “Shakespeare-land”, Constance has found a confidence in herself that she had previously not known about. For example, Constance found her power by “snatches up Desdemona’s sword and thrusts savagely and repeatedly at Iago, disarms Iago and knocks him down and is poised to skewer him”(MacDonald 46). At the end of Act 3, scene 6, Constance finally speaks up “Nay nay!!- Nay. Just…nay…both of you. I’ve had it with all the tragic tunnel vision around here. You have no idea what - life is a hell of a lot more complicated than you think! Life – real life – is a big mess”(MacDonald 86). At the end of the play, after encounters with Desdemona and Juliet, Constance becomes strong and realizes that the only person she need to please is herself “For those who have the eyes to see: Take care – for what you see, just might be thee. Where two plus one adds up to one, not three”(MacDonald 88). This quote is said by Constance to Desdemona and Juliet after she found out that she is the author of the manuscript. Finally, she achieve a victory in her quest to find “The Fool”, and learns her true value as a person, without falling victim to