Pale Mistress: Lover. Courtesan. Survivor.Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, all, cry shame against me, yet Ill 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 womans story, Naomi Kelsey dazzlingly recasts a