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Love & Mend: Much Ado About Nothing

By letter2self on November 16, 2023



Who wants to bet I butchered some names in this one?

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I FORGOT TO PUT HER IN THE CREDITS BUT ALSO
Ali Nahdee: https://twitter.com/AliNahdee

If you want to watch some of the productions I showed in this video heres a letterbox list of my favorites to help you track them down
https://letterboxd.com/lkthebrave/list/good-shakespeare-adaptations/

Music by Epidemic Sound: http://epidemicsound.com/

0:00 – Intro
01:43 – Chapter 1: Sigh No More
07:12 – Chapter 2: A Kingdom For a Stage
14:29 – Chapter 3: A Stuffed Man
21:07 – Chapter 4: We Are The Only Love Gods
29:09 – Chapter 5: The Shylock Tangent
49:47 – Chapter 6: What Fire Is In Mine Ears?
54:54 – Chapter 7: Quartos, Folios, Oh My!
1:00:46 – Chapter 8: Kill Claudio
1:09:30 – Chapter 9: Our Hands Against Our Hearts
1:18:30 – Ad Read
1:20:05 – Credits

Land Acknowledgment:
This video was produced on land that traditionally belonged to the Kizh, Tongva, and Chumash Nations. https://native-land.ca/

Sources:
The Globe’s Anti-Racist Shakespeare Series
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2alQNZWKx8NboN7uVKg1qQzjo9C1LxQ-

Folger Shakespeare Library Updated Edition: ‘Much Ado About Nothing,’ Edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine (2018)

Reassessing Jewish Life in Medieval Europe. Cambridge University Press. Chazan, Robert (2010)

Shakespeare and the Jews by James Shapiro (1992)

Shakespeare In Production: ‘Much Ado About Nothing,’ Edited by John F. Cox (1997)

Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacy by John Gross (1992)

The Arden Shakespeare Revised Edition: ‘Much Ado About Nothing,’ Edited by Claire McEachern (2015)

The Arden Shakespeare Revised Edition: ‘The Merchant of Venice,’ Edited by John Drakakis, (2010)

A His­tor­i­cal Look at Jews in the Work of Shakespeare
https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/shakespeare-shmakespeare-jews-and-the-bard

The Centuries-Old History of Venice’s Jewish Ghetto
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/venice-ghetto-jews-italy-anniversary-shaul-bassi-180956867/

The Jew(ish) actor playing Shylock at the Globe
https://www.thejc.com/life-and-culture/all/the-jew-ish-actor-playing-shylock-at-the-globe-3JDrms5DpayUpZF9rU0v3F

This Day in Jewish History | 1278: All Jews of England Arrested in ‘Coin-clipping’ Scandal
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2013-11-17/ty-article/.premium/1278-all-english-jews-arrested-by-crown/0000017f-db8e-db5a-a57f-dbee03bf0002

Crucifixion and Conversion: King Henry III and the Jews in 1255
https://www.medievalists.net/2010/03/crucifixion-and-conversion-king-henry-iii-and-the-jews-in-1255/

The Jews of medieval England
https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/the-jews-of-medieval-england/

That Tumblr Post
https://romehoe-montague.tumblr.com/post/681486224701161472/me-i-dont-really-want-to-write-this-essay-the

Shakespeare in the Ghetto, the Ghetto in Shakespeare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vznq94vgfrI

Noting in Much Ado About Nothing: Meaning, Examples & Quotes
https://study.com/academy/lesson/noting-in-much-ado-about-nothing-meaning-examples-quotes.html

Shylock’s Jewish Way of Speaking
https://ingeveb.org/articles/shylocks-jewish-way-of-speaking

How were the Jews regarded in 16th-century England?
https://www.bl.uk/shakespeare/articles/how-were-the-jews-regarded-in-16th-century-england

The Globe Magazine 2022
https://cdn.shakespearesglobe.com/uploads/2022/05/Summer-2022.-Globe-Magazine..pdf

Four Hundred Years Later, Scholars Still Debate Whether Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice” Is Anti-Semitic
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-scholars-still-debate-whether-or-not-shakespeares-merchant-venice-anti-semitic-180958867/

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