Episode 262: “Much Ado About Nothing” by William Shakespeare, Acts 2 & 3

The Literary Life Podcast

Angelina Stanford

Education, Selfeducation, Classicaleducation, Reading, Literature, Homeschool, Arts, Books, Charlottemason, Homeeducation, Homeschooling

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to our series on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing here on The Literary Life Podcast. Our hosts, Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks, open the episode with some thoughts on disguises and appearance versus reality in Shakespeare. They talk about how the eavesdropping in this play works together with the things not being as they seem. Angelina shares some clarifying ideas on discussing characters and their function in the story without pulling them out of the story and psychoanalyzing them. Other topics they discuss in this episode are: the importance of the song lyrics in this play, Dogberry and his companions, Claudio’s instability, and the shape of comedy. Join us next week for the final two acts of Much Ado About Nothing.

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0:00.0	This is not just another book chat podcast.
0:21.6	Lifelong reader Cindy Rollins joins teachers Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks for an ongoing conversation about the skill and art of reading well.
0:32.6	Explore the lost intellectual tradition and discover how to fully enter end to the great works of literature.
0:40.2	Learn what books mean while delighting in the sheer joy of imagination. Each week, we will rescue
0:47.1	story from the ivory tower and bring it to your couch, your kitchen, and your commute. The literary life is for everyone because in the
0:55.9	words of Stratford Caldecott, to be enchanted by story is to be granted a deeper insight into
1:02.2	reality. Join us for an ever-unfolding discussion of how stories will save the world.
1:09.7	This is the Literary Life Podcast.
1:31.1	Welcome back to the Literary Life podcast.
1:37.9	I'm Angelina Stanford, and here is the man who I hope did not have to be tricked into falling in love with me.
1:40.0	Well, we'll never know. We'll never know.
1:41.3	No.
1:46.3	I mean, minstrels appeared, and, you know, there was friends of mine talking in an obvious way about how great you are.
1:48.7	But no, I think there was nothing, nothing suspicious going on.
1:49.5	Nothing suspicious.
1:54.8	No one, like, no, like, no, you know, little infant with wings.
1:57.4	You flew in and shot me with an arrow or anything.
2:00.6	Remember some of our mutual friends saying, call him into dinner.
2:02.9	That seemed to recall that.
2:03.8	Yeah, yeah.
2:05.9	That was how charmingly awkward.
2:08.6	I'm Angelina Stanford.
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