Desdemona

Author: Toni Morrison

Plays, playscripts

Published on 13^th June 2024 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Methuen Drama) in the United Kingdom as part of the 'Modern Classics' series.

Paperback / softback | 72 pages
198mm x 129mm | 0g

'This is a remarkable, challenging and bravely original work.' The GuardianRipped from the world by her husband's paranoia, Desdemona turns in death towards the memory of Barbary, the North African maid who raised her: together, they explore the contours of death, race, war, love and motherhood, in a moving elegy.

Audacious with ambition, Desdemona is Toni Morrison's intimate reimagining of the fourth act of Shakespeare's Othello, mixing monologue with Rokia Traore's lyrical songs to re-examine the Bard's presentation of race and female suffering.

Part-play, part-concert, part-quest into the afterlife, Desdemona is published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, featuring a new introduction by Joyce Green MacDonald.