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Toni Morrison's ghostly 'Desdemona' blends words and music in lyrical revision of Shakespeare by Charles McNulty

From the merest suggestion in Shakespeare's "Othello" that Desdemona may have had an African maid as a girl, Toni Morrison imagines hidden dimensions in the mind and heart of the Senator's daughter who shocked Venice by marrying a Moor. In "Desdemona," which opened Thursday at UCLA's Freud Playhouse...

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:08PM on October 15, 2015

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