Robust and endlessly versatile, Othello has rightly remained one of Shakespeare's most popular tragedies. We spend the entire play knowing more than the Moor of Venice and are forced to watch him slowly come undone. Watching Othello is like watching a car wreck: we see it coming and can do nothing but sit and wait for the crash to occur. In this episode of Shakespeare Unbard, Joel discusses one of Shakespeare's strongest plays.
Read MoreWomen are wooed in Shakespeare, but until As you Like It, he never showed us the process by which they are won.
Read MoreOften maligned, not just in this century, but in all of them, Henry VI Part One is considered to be such a bad play that there's a popular theory that Shakespeare didn't write it. Joel Fishbane suspects the theory was developed more to spare the scholar than out of concern for Shakespeare's ego. In the third episode of Shakespeare Unbard, Joel Fishbane examines this question. Also: the show is summarized in one minute and the adaptations An Age of Kings and The HollowCrown are discussed.
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