Just help yourself listeners, to our second episode on Much Ado About Nothing and its adaptations!
In this episode our main muses will be the BBC’s 2005 TV special, written by David Nicholls, Kenny Leon’s 2019 production at the Delacorte Theater, Kenneth Branagh’s 1993 film adaptation, and Will Gluck’s 2023 film Anyone But You.
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Note: In the episode we mention that Hero lunges at Claudio in the 2019 production at the Delacorte Theater, which is not true. She sadly only lunches at Don Jon (THE BASTARD!!!)
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📼 Preread text (Rowan Ellis, 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) (wr. David Nicholls, dir. Brian Percival) (BBC) (https://archive.org/details/shakespeare-told-2005)📺 Great Performances (1972-present) S47 E09 Much Ado About Nothing (dir. Kenny Leon)(2019) (PBS) (archive.org/details/xebpsxfn_gper4413-mp4-720p-3000k_202009)🎞️ Anyone But You (2023) (1994) (dir. Will Gluck, wr. Ilana Wolpers, Will Gluck)Secondary Sources:
📱 Tumblr “scribefindegil”. www.tumblr.com/scribefindegil/644768636624601088/so-many-things-try-to-emulate-the
📰 Deleyto, Celestino. ‘Men in Leather.’ Cinema Journal , Spring, 1997, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Spring, 1997), pp. 91-105.📰 Ehrlich, David; “‘The Threesome’ Review”. IndieWire, 2025 (www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/the-threesome-movie-review-zoey-deutch-ruby-cruz-jonah-hauer-king-1235101691/)📰 Kosin, Julie; “The Best Fashion from Our Favorite Shakespeare Films” (2014) (Harper’s Bazaar)📰 Sheppard, Philippa. "10 “Sigh No More Ladies”". Devouring Time: Nostalgia in Contemporary Shakespearean Screen Adaptations, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017, pp. 285-302.📰 Wray, Ramona; "10 Shakespeare and the Singletons”. Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006, pp. 185-205.
📚 Sanders, Julie; Adaptation and Appropriation (2016)💿 Die Ärzte: “Männer sind Schweine” (1998)💿 Patrick Doyle: “Much Ado About Nothing” (1993)
📼Ladyknightthebrave: “Love & Mend: Much Ado About Nothing” (youtu.be/7NO5D7hEuaI?si=XdGRoEmK1RhXMu-k)📼 BUILD Series: “Kenny Leon, Danielle Brooks & Grantham Coleman” (youtu.be/ApgPOYfi9OM?si=UYK3I9DlfX3GqSxy)📼 Sony Pictures Entertainment: “ANYONE BUT YOU - Official Trailer (HD)” (youtu.be/UtjH6Sk7Gxs?si=s5QZYv3J1B-YEd6T)📼 SearchlightPictures: “500 Days of Summer” (youtu.be/oBxR8cEt2xM?si=OOgwFgBy35aT4L5M)
🎭 Public Theater NY, publictheater.org/about/About-The-Public/
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Anna: 🎙️ Bad Gays: “Marianne Woods and Jane Pirie” Lili: 🎞️ Rye Lane (by Raine Allen-Miller; 📜 Nathan Byron, Tom Melia)
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