I, Iago, Nicole Galland
I, Iago, Nicole Galland
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I, Iago
A Novel

Author: Nicole Galland

Narrator: Liam Gerrard

Unabridged: 12 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/28/2020

Synopsis

The critically acclaimed author of The Fool's Tale, Nicole Galland now approaches William Shakespeare's classic drama of jealousy, betrayal, and murder from the opposite side. I, Iago is an ingenious, brilliantly crafted novel that allows one of literature's greatest villains—the deceitful schemer Iago, from the Bard's immortal tragedy, Othello—to take center stage in order to reveal his "true" motivations. This is Iago as you've never known him, his past and influences breathtakingly illuminated, in a fictional reexamination that explores the eternal question: is true evil the result of nature versus nurture . . . or something even more complicated?

Contains mature themes.

About Nicole Galland

Nicole Galland is the author of four previous novels: The Fool's Tale, Revenge of the Rose, Crossed: A Tale of the Fourth Crusade, and I, Iago. She's worked in theater, screenwriting, magazine publishing, grad-schooling, teaching, temping, and other random enterprises. She is the co-founder of Shakespeare for the Masses, a project that irreverently makes the Bard accessible to the Bardophobes of the world. An award-winning screenwriter, she is married to actor Billy Meleady.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Elyse on July 23, 2012

I, Iago is one of the best books I’ve ever read. It’s a book I’ve been waiting for my whole life - one that takes the blame off a villain who is very nearly a scapegoat, and spreads that blame evenly among the other characters. I mean, honestly - were Romeo and Juliet not being just the least bit sp......more

Goodreads review by Ben on July 18, 2013

Iago tops any list of Shakespeare's most evil characters, hands down. He isn't driven by a code of business like Shylock or ambitions for her husband like Lady Macbeth. Rather, based on the flimsiest imagined grievances (passed over for promotion; suspects his wife is sleeping with his boss), he rui......more

Goodreads review by Jason on June 21, 2013

"I knew to the depths of my soul that nothing I did was errant, that in the greater sense, I acted out of righteousness, however vengeful and indirect it seemed." In Nicole Galland’s wonderful, “I, Iago”, Iago ponders the intricate web of deceit, defamation and lies he weaves that will culminate in......more

Goodreads review by AdiTurbo on September 05, 2017

This one is definitely one of the best novels I've read this year. If anyone had told me I would stoop to reading a re-hashing of Othello, I would've laughed at their face. But I did, and it was fantastic. Galland writes beautifully and confidently, never trying to "improve" on Shakespeare, but givi......more

Goodreads review by Jenn on May 02, 2012

They called me “honest Iago” from an early age, but in Venice, this is not a compliment. It is rebuke. One does not prosper by honesty. Othello doesn’t end well. If you are at all familiar with Shakespeare’s tragedies, you know as much. Othello is a tale of jealousy and ambition, love and passion, d......more

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