This interdisciplinary course, taught in conjunction with a full-scale Carleton Players production, will explore one of Shakespeare’s most celebrated and performed works, Much Ado About Nothing. We will investigate the play’s historical, social, and theatrical contexts as we try to understand not only the world that produced the play, but the world that came out of it. How should what we learn of the past inform a modern production? How can performance offer interpretive arguments about the play’s meanings? Mixing embodied and experiential learning, individual and group projects may include a combination of research, assistant directing, choreography, music direction, dramaturgy, design, exhibition curation, and work in Special Collections.
Essays and podcasts are only available here. Posters can be seen in person as part of the Much Ado About Nothing lobby display in the Weitz Center for Creativity – Up now through Sunday May 7, 2023!
Much Ado About Nothing opens Thursday, May 4 and runs through Sunday, May 7. Visit the Events page for more details and to reserve your (free) ticket!
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Carleton’s Much Ado About Nothing Podcast (47.7MB .mp3 file)“Carleton’s Much Ado About Nothing Podcast”. -
Clothes on the Shakespearean Stage (3.0MB PDF Document) -
Elizabethan Dance Forms and Much Ado About Nothing (529.1KB PDF Document)
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Much Ado About Noting: Reviewing Music in Much Ado About Nothing (152.4KB PDF Document)
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Much Ado About What (3.1MB PDF Document)
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The Four Bodily Humors in Much Ado About Nothing (1.4MB PDF Document)