Desdemona

<p><b>''This is a remarkable, challenging and bravely original work.'' <i>The Guardian</i></b><br><br>Ripped 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.<br><br>Audacious with ambition, <i>Desdemona</i> is Toni Morrison''s intimate reimagining of the fourth act of Shakespeare''s <i>Othello</i>, mixing monologue with Rokia Traore''s lyrical songs to re-examine the Bard''s presentation of race and female suffering.<br><br>Part-play, part-concert, part-quest into the afterlife, <i>Desdemona is</i> published in Methuen Drama''s Modern Classics series, featuring a new introduction by Joyce Green MacDonald.</p>