Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) Study Guide

The Dumbshow consists of three simultaneous vignettes displayed without speech. In the first vignette Othello murders Desdemona in her bedchamber by smothering her with a pillow. In the second vignette Romeo lies dead in a crypt as Juliet awakens, mourns, and kills herself with a rapier. In the third vignette Constance Ledbelly sits in her office having a telephone conversation which upsets her; she subsequently hangs up the telephone, throws her pen and the leather-bound Gustav Manuscript into the trash and exits her office. (read more)