Ann-Marie MacDonald, The Arab's Mouth

Neta Gordon (Brock University)

Ed. by Cynthia Sugars, University of Ottawa
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1990

Places

Canada (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Play

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As Ann-Marie MacDonald explains in her Afterword to

Belle Moral: A Natural History

, which was published in 2005 to coincide with a production of the play at the renowned Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario,

Belle Moral

“has its origins in an earlier play of mine called

The Arab’s Mouth

” (153), a play that was first staged in 1990 by Toronto’s Factory Theatre and, in 1995, published by Blizzard Publishing. Produced and published between MacDonald’s breakout play,

Goodnight Desdemona

(

Good Morning Juliet

) and the even more successful novel,

Fall on Your Knees

The Arab’s Mouth

may be considered as linking the two more well-known texts in terms of its themes. MacDonald explains in her Afterword:

After The Arab’s Mouth premiered, I knew that it was not quite finished

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Citation: Gordon, Neta. "The Arab's Mouth". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 November 2019 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=14670, accessed 23 April 2024.]

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