Upstart Crow (TV Series)
Lord, What Fools These Mortals Be! (2018)
David Mitchell: Will
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Quotes
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Will Shakespeare : Kate, what's love got to do with it? Wh-what be love but a... second hand emotion?
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Will Shakespeare : Gods Boobykins, Kate. If... if a mischievous sprite can't administer a simple love potion to a sleeping innocent without being accused of assault, then, then I give up!
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Will Shakespeare : You never forget your first Puck.
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Kate : [Kate pretends to have fallen in love with Bottom] 'Tis as if I see thee for the first time. My Bottom! Come, embrace! My Bottom! Kiss! My Bottom. Caress, cuddle and delight. My Bottom!
Will Shakespeare : [to Greene] Bottom's his name.
Robert Greene : Oh, of course that's al right then.
[raises voice]
Robert Greene : Except not!
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Will Shakespeare : Speaking of which, predatory sprites aside, do you like my Midsummer's Night Dream?
Kate : If I'm honest, I think it's all a bit mimsy whimsy soppy grotty doo dah.
Will Shakespeare : Mimsy whimsy soppy grotty doo dah, how can you say that?
Kate : Well, for a start, three of the principal characters are fairies.
Will Shakespeare : And proudly so! I would've thought, that you, of all people, would agree that it's high time that members of the FSNEP community were properly represented in popular drama projects.
Kate : FSNEP?
Will Shakespeare : Fairy, Sprite, Nymph, Elf and Pixie. FSNEP characters are appallingly underrepresented in mainstream culture.
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Will Shakespeare : They don't like the play! They think it's dull and needs more gags.
Bottom : Well that's not a very helpful comment, is it?
Will Shakespeare : No it isn't.
Bottom : I mean they could say that about any of your plays.
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Bottom : So you really do believe in fairies then?
Will Shakespeare : Absolutely! I've met one!
Kate : You've met an actual fairy?
Will Shakespeare : Indeed I have. A Puckish sprite, a will-o'-the-wisp in the employ of the Fairy Queen. It was from him that I got the idea for the potion and it is to just such a potion that I owe the love of mine own sweet Anne.
Kate : Is this one of your jokes?
Bottom : Could be. I mean it's not funny and that's usually a clue.