Upstart Crow (TV Series)

Lord, What Fools These Mortals Be! (2018)

Gemma Whelan: Kate

Quotes 

• 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!

• 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.

• 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.

• Kate : I am sorry, my lord, but I am spoken for. I love my Bottom.

  Lord Egeus : And with good reason! Fine buttocks, strong flanks. Like a noble horse.