Pale Mistress

"Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak... " Cyprus, 16th century. Murder, lies and vengeance has left lovers dead, promises broken and no one to trust.

Only one woman survives, Bianca. The slain? History knows their names: Emilia, Desdemona, Othello.

But why do we not know Bianca? Who was the pale mistress? Liar or lied to?

Instigator or victim? In telling one woman's story, Naomi Kelsey dazzlingly recasts a Shakespearean tragedy as a psychological thriller of jealousy and gaslighting, ambition and envy, and the making and breaking of one of Shakespeare's most notorious villains, Iago.