Crossover Post: Much Ado Nothing Act I | The Play's the Thing

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🗓️ 12 October 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this special crossover post from The Play's the Thing, a podcast dedicated to an ongoing examination and celebration of Shakespeare's entire canon, David, Angelina, and Andrew Kern discuss Act I of Much Ado About Nothing. PLEASE NOTE: To access the rest of the shows in this series make sure you have subscribed to The Play's the Thing's feed.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the plays the thing here on the Close Reeds Podcast Network.
0:11.1	I'm David Kern and I'm joined by Angelina Stanford and occasional contributor to this podcast,
0:17.8	Andrew Kern.
0:19.0	Welcome to the show to both of you.
0:20.3	It is I, Andrew the date. Wait, no, hello.
0:22.6	Thank you. Thank you. Excited to be here. Woohoo. Me too. We are here to discuss much to do
0:31.0	what nothing. This being the place to sing. It's all Shakespeare all the time here in the place
0:35.8	of saying in this particular cycle, I don't know, five-week cycle. We are, it's all Shakespeare all the time here in the place that's saying. In this particular cycle, I don't know, five-week cycle,
0:39.8	we are discussing the comedy much to do by nothing.
0:43.1	One of the probably, would you say, would you guys agree most,
0:45.5	one of the most beloved Shakespeare plays most likely?
0:48.0	Oh, I would probably agree with that.
0:50.5	I've been reading about how it was received at the time.
0:52.9	So, yeah, I'd say there's a good case to be made for that.
0:55.9	We're going to have to hear about that in a minute then.
0:57.6	Would you agree with that?
0:58.4	I want to see how much we can destroy it.
1:01.8	I don't think we're going to be able to.
1:03.6	Whatever we say against it, it'll dodge us.
1:06.9	But I do think.
1:08.1	So, yeah, I think it was always well received. And now you look at the movies that are, you look at the two movies, I'm sure these have come up, but the Brana version and the Joss Whedon version, they're so, so different.
1:19.2	And yet both are so well received.
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