Upstart Crow (TV Series)

Wild Laughter in the Throat of Death (2018)

David Mitchell: Will

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• Will Shakespeare : [aside]  And so do I continue my private task of sowing confusion about what I actually wrote and what people merely think I did until the day dawns when people in their ignorance and vanity will attribute any archaic sounding truism to me in the certitude that it might easily have been me and if it wasn't no one will know the diff. Thus will I eventually get credit for inventing the entire English language. So shove that up your Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer!

• Kate : Mr. Shakespeare, confused am I. You say you have no ideas for a comedy, and yet I know you have been hard at work on one for ages. And from what you've read us, I believe it will be your greatest gagfest yet.

  Will Shakespeare : Comedy, child? I have writ no new comedy.

  Kit Marlowe : Yes you have, the one you keep telling us about. The one about the Prince of Denmark.

  Will Shakespeare : You... you mean Hamlet?

• Kate : But Mr. Shakespeare, a whole year forswearing rumpy pumpington? Won't your wife object?

  Will Shakespeare : I don't think Anne will mind missing out on one bonk, Kate. She's... she's not a sex maniac.