iago is left charging off into the darkness refusing to say ood word. he's a character that's just not finished. like in 12th night, "i'll be revenged." we never see that revenge. there's a broken arm at the end of that play of malvolio's rage and there an unhealed wound in iago's silence. it's associated with why shakespeare went out of fashion for 200 years. it's seen as badly made, messy, incomplete, indecorous, vulgar, crude. i heard a brilliant young german director recently in london talk about how it's a really badly put together play. yeah, maybe. maybe. it's not neat. it's not resolved. it's not regular. >> rose: those were the things he said or were there other reasons? >> think he found it inconsistent. he found it messy. and the messes and contradictions doesn't stack up. the fact that it doesn't stac up is what makes it like life. >> rose: exactly film adaptations. >> i think my two favorite... i'm trying to think. my two favorite shakespeares on screen are probably... i've got there. a hamlet and "lear" with paul scofield. >> rose: peter b