All The Tropes

Shakespeare in Fiction: Difference between revisions

Page Discussion

Shakespeare in Fiction (view source)

Revision as of 05:55, 10 November 2015

2 bytes removed ,  8 years ago
m
update links
VisualWikitext
m (update links)
m (update links)
Line 77:
 
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'':
** The episode "[[Doctor Who/Recap/NS/S3S29/E02 The Shakespeare Code|The Shakespeare Code]]" is centered around the first (and only) performance of ''Love's Labours Won''. Among other references, it has a pub named the Elephant that Shakespeare frequents (''[[Twelfth Night]]'' has an inn of the same name). It plays Shakespeare as akin to a rock star of the Middle Ages with a genius-level intellect. Martha Jones turns out to be the Dark Lady of the sonnets. They also play with Shakespeare's suspected bisexuality (i.e, he hits on both Martha and the Doctor).
** In the Fourth Doctor episode ''City of Death'', the Doctor is shown reading a manuscript of ''[[Hamlet]]'' (which he hand-wrote for Will, who had sprained his wrist writing sonnets) and claiming that he helped compose the famous 'To be or not to be' speech.
** Shakespeare has also appeared several times in the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]], including the audio ''The Kingmaker'' and the [[Virgin Missing Adventures|Missing Adventures]] novel ''Empire of Glass'' (which also features Marlowe).
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1339550"