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Episode 261: "Much Ado About Nothing" by William Shakespeare, Acts 1 & 2
· 1 h 23 min · S7 E261
Episode Episode 261: "Much Ado About Nothing" by William Shakespeare, Acts 1 & 2
Welcome back to The Literary Life Podcast and our series on Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare. This week Angelina and Thomas are discussing Acts 1 and 2 and will try to do that by talking about the story as a whole, not simply focussing on the characters. They talk about the roles of the anti-romantic and the ultra-romantic couples, as well as the place of poetic verse and plain verse in the dialogue of the play. Other topics they cover are the trickery for good and ill, the influence of the planets in Medieval and Renaissance thought, and the cosmology of music and dance in Elizabethan times.
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