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When Will's savings go missing, he is forced to make an unusual bargain with his rival.

Comedy
Year 2016
29 min

David Mitchell (Peep Show) stars as a self-important Shakespeare in this funny, fictionalized sitcom about the Bard's beginnings and family life.

Year: 2016

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E1 • Star Crossed Lovers
1. 29min
2. TV-PG
3. CC
4. HD
Will struggles to find inspiration for Romeo and has to deal with an angry actor.
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E2 • The Play's the Thing
1. 29min
2. TV-PG
3. CC
4. HD
Will's controversial new play is about to be presented to the queen when it goes missing.
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E3 • The Apparel Proclaims The Man
1. 29min
2. TV-PG
3. CC
4. HD
Will hopes to move up in the world when he is invited to Lord Southampton's party.
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E4 • Love is Not Love
1. 29min
2. TV-PG
3. CC
4. HD
Will has completed his final sonnet and senses literary immortality just around the corner
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E5 • What Bloody Man is That?
1. 29min
2. TV-PG
3. CC
4. HD
The plague leads Will and his friends to escape to the family home in Stratford.
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E6 • The Quality of Mercy
1. 29min
2. TV-PG
3. CC
4. HD
When Will's savings go missing, he is forced to make an unusual bargain with his rival.

Cast
David Mitchell

William Shakespeare
Liza Tarbuck

Anne Hathaway
Spencer Jones

Kempe
Tim Downie

Kit Marlowe
Jocelyn Jee Esien

Lucy
Mark Heap

Robert Greene
Gemma Whelan

Kate
Rob Rouse

Bottom
Steve Speirs

Burbage
Dominic Coleman

Condell
Helen Monks

Susanna
Paula Wilcox

Mary Arden
Harry Enfield

John Shakespeare
Evan Rees

Squeaky Boy
Tom Edden

Clerk
Gabrielle Glaister

Judge

Crew
Matt Lipsey

Director
Gareth Edwards

Producer
Ben Elton

Writer