When your famous relatives are murderers, murdered, or both, you don’t really get to have a life of your own. Iago's daughter and Desdemona's cousin decide to make new names for themselves.

After Abby’s father Iago has ruined literally everything by creating an insidious handkerchief plot–and oh yeah, murdering Abby’s mom–Abby is sent to a nunnery to work in the chores alley. Which is fine, because she’s done laundry before and she’ll do it again. Until Brittany, a noble daughter looking to escape, shows up–and she’s Desdemona’s cousin. Brittany aims to convince Abby to run away with her… on horses named Middleton and Staffordshire? But Abby has a better idea.

Questions floating around in that soapy bucket of nun laundry: are we defined by our families? How do we navigate to the best of bad options? Freedom or safety? Why is it SO HARD to do laundry by hand?

**Did this ‘lil nugget just make you hungry for more? Iago's Daughter appears in the full-length collection Almost Tragic: Shakespeare's Not-Dead Heroines, featuring four Shakespeare sequels brimming with laugh-out-loud humor and exceptional roles for women.