Commonweal, December 4th, 1992
One of the charges against John is that he is pedantic. Pedant is used more positively (if comically) in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Goodnight Desdemona (GoodMorning Juliet) at the Classic Stage Company Theatre, but the sexist, elitist university is in full swing in the Canadian playwright's Shakespearean pastiche. The protagonist (Constance Ledbelly) is a very model of the conventional eccentric spinster scholar. She has spent ten years writing the articles and speeches that have made her beloved, Professor Claude Knight, academically desirable enough to win him a chair at Oxford, toward which he h...
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