Upstart Crow (TV Series)

The Play's the Thing (2016)

Tim Downie: Marlowe

Quotes 

• Marlowe : So, whisper is you're writing another play? Good work that, man. I can't think how you find the energy.

  Will : Actually I have several on the go at present, alongside my teen romance. Mainly just ideas. 'The Taming of the Vole', which I quite like. 'Seventeen Gentlement of Verona'. That needs trimming. 'A Midsummer Night's Whimsical Old Tosh'. Still looking for the big idea there.

  Bottom : I've told ya, just say it's a dream. You can get away with any old dung balls if you say it's a dream.

  Will : Exactly, Bottom, and I hope my quill does wither on Miss Clucky's arse before I resort to such a lazy cop-out.

• Kate : I know I am only an ignorant woman, but I have read Historia Gentis Scotorum and so know something of the Stewart Queen's back story.

  Marlowe : Clever girl's an ugly girl, Kate.

• Will : Your name is like a cold sore.

  Marlowe : Pardon?

  Will : It's on everybody's lips.