This week on Heavenly Shows and Unnecessary Letters: Othello, directed by Oliver Parker in 1995, and written in 1603 by William Shakespeare.

EPISODE NOTES: We specifically worked, when developing the schedule for watching these shows, to make sure it was the kind of schedule we could adhere to and that wouldn’t make us want to quit half-way through. We put the histories in chronological order, we made sure we weren’t watching too many tragedies or comedies in a row; and then, when we were done with that, we sprinkled as evenly as possible among the other plays the capital B Big capital O Ones; the plays that people recognise as being the great works of the Shakespearean canon. And so, now, we come to the first of those: Othello. This is a work done often, performed by fantastic, generation defining performers, and rightly recognised as a prime example of the work that Shakespeare was capable of doing. It is not a perfect play; but it is a play that leaves us with a great deal to talk about, and so we shall.

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Editing by Tammy Sarah Linde and Luke O'Hagan 

Music by Luke O'Hagan 

Audio excerpt from Henry V used under a Creative Commons License from Archive.org - license available here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ 

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