Sigh no more listeners, because we’re back with a new episode on William Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, and we’ll be focusing on not one, not two, but four adaptations! Our media of choice are Kenneth Branagh’s 1993 film, the 2005 BBC TV adaptation, Kenny Leon’s 2019 production, and of course, Will Gluck’s 2023 film ‘Anyone But You’.
And with so much to talk about, we’ve made this one into a two parter - look out for the second episode, coming soon!
For now, pull up your deck chair, and try not to fall off as we ask why are there so many Shakespeare adaptations, what is a romcom, and does ‘Anyone But You’ succeed at being either of these things?
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📼 Preread text (Rowan Ellis, https://youtu.be/SMFll3aIbmo)
Primary Sources:🎭 Much Ado About Nothing (~1598) by William Shakespeare🎞️ Much Ado About Nothing (1993) (dir., wr. by Kenneth Branagh)📺 ShakespeaRe-Told (2005) Ep. 1 Much Ado About Nothing (2005) (dir. David Nicholls, wr. Brian Percival) (BBC)📺 Great Performances (1972 - present) S47 E09 Much Ado About Nothing (dir. Kenny Leon)(2019) (PBS) (https://archive.org/details/xebpsxfn_gper4413-mp4-720p-3000k_202009)🎞️ Anyone But You (2023) (dir. Will Gluck, wr. Ilana Wolpers, Will Gluck)Secondary Sources:📰 Deleyto, Celestino. ‘Men in Leather: Kenneth Branagh's "Much Ado about Nothing" and Romantic Comedy.’ Cinema Journal , Spring, 1997, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Spring, 1997), pp. 91-105.📰 Edgerton, Ellen. “‘Your Answer, Sir, Is Cinematical’: Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing.’” Shakespeare Bulletin 12, no. 1 (1994): 42–44.📰 Nicholson, Amy; “Anyone but Youʼ Review: Baring Bums in the Land Down Under” (2023) (New York Times)📰 Kosin, Julie; “The Best Fashion from Our Favorite Shakespeare Films” (2014) (Harper’s Bazaar)📰 Wray, Ramona; "10 Shakespeare and the Singletons, or, Beatrice Meets Bridget Jones: Post-Feminism, Popular Culture and ‘Shakespea(Re)-Told’”. Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006, pp. 185-205.📰 Globalization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization📚 Kinsey, Albert; “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female” (1953)📚 McDonald, Tamar Jeffers; “Romantic Comedy: Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre” (2007)📚 Sanders, Julie; Adaptation and Appropriation (2016)🎭 🎙️ Material Girls Podcast
📼 BUILD Series: “Kenny Leon, Danielle Brooks & Grantham Coleman On The Public's "Much Ado About Nothing” (https://youtu.be/ApgPOYfi9OM?si=UYK3I9DlfX3GqSxy)📼 Broey Deschanel: “Anatomy of a Rom Com” (https://youtu.be/yTKcHw_wg-4?si=3GZkamkilZZip0hJ)📼 Sony Pictures Entertainment: “ANYONE BUT YOU - Official Trailer (HD)” (https://youtu.be/UtjH6Sk7Gxs?si=s5QZYv3J1B-YEd6T)📼 SearchlightPictures: “500 Days of Summer” (https://youtu.be/oBxR8cEt2xM?si=OOgwFgBy35aT4L5M)
🎭 Public Theater NY, https://publictheater.org/about/About-The-Public/📺 The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-2025) (cr. Bruce Miller) (Hulu)
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🎹Intromusic: "Wall" by Jahzaar, licenced under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
🎹Outro Music:“Waterbeat” by DJ Lengua, licenced under Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
🎹Transition Music (all from Pixabay):
Audience_applause_big theatre by freesound_community (https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/audience-applause-big-theatre-54753/)
Curtain-82308 by freesound_community(https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/curtain-82308/)
Curtain Closing by silasraj(https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/curtain-closing-323254/)
theater_audience_mincing by leo153 (Freesound) https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/theater-audience-mincing-31940/
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA TUNING BEFORE CONCERT by dorhel (Freesound) https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/symphony-orchestra-tuning-before-concert-34066/
