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* ComedicWorkSeriousScene: This is a comedy about Creator/WilliamShakespeare. Will's rants about travelling home from London are a regular feature. Then, in one episode, he stomps in as usual and his exasperated rant is met by stony silence. It takes him a minute to register the change in tone. And then he finds out that his young son Hamnet died while he was away. It's not PlayedForLaughs.
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* ComedicWorkSeriousScene: This is a comedy about Creator/WilliamShakespeare. Will's rants about travelling home from London are a regular feature. Then, in one episode, he stomps in as usual and his exasperated rant is met by stony silence. It takes him a minute to register the change in tone. And then he finds out that his young son Hamnet died while he was away. It's not PlayedForLaughs. Anne takes comfort in her religion, allowing her to carry on, Will plays along for her sake but privately he is devastated and considers his beloved son lost to him forever.
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** The real Robert Greene, who wrote the Groats-Worth, from which the title comes, passed away a month before it was published, at the age of 34, in 1592.
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** The real Robert Greene, who wrote the Groats-Worth, from which the title comes, passed away a month before it was published, at the age of 34, in 1592. He was also a more successful, talented and influential writer than the show depicts him as. His novel ''Pandosto'' was even used by Shakespeare as the inspiration for ''Theatre/TheWintersTale''.
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* {{Narm}}: How most of the people interpret Shakespeare's synopsis of Hamlet.
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* MarriageOfConvenience: In "The Most Unkindest Cut of All", Kate hatches a plan to marry a hermaphrodite who is legally a man but who will have no interest in her sexually, for being a married woman will mean that she is legally allowed to own property.
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* TimeSkip: Series 3 having ended in Christmas 1596 (with Will still grieving for his son Hamnet), the next installment is set at Christmas 1603, with the deaths of Will's father John[[1601]] and Elizabeth I[[note]]Earlier that year, but with old style dates it was New Year's Eve 1602.[[/note]] mentioned in dialogue.
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* TimeSkip: Series 3 having ended in Christmas 1596 (with Will still grieving for his son Hamnet), the next installment is set at Christmas 1603, with the deaths of Will's father John[[1601]] John[note]]1601[[/note]] and Elizabeth I[[note]]Earlier that year, but with old style dates it was New Year's Eve 1602.[[/note]] 1602[[/note]] mentioned in dialogue.
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* AnachronismStew: "A Christmas Crow" shows Elizabeth's throne decorated with the modern day royal arms - with Scottish elements that were introduced by her successor James I.
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** "A Christmas Crow" shows Elizabeth's throne decorated with the modern day royal arms - with Scottish elements that were introduced by her successor James I.
** "A Christmas Crow" shows Elizabeth's throne decorated with the modern day royal arms - with Scottish elements that were introduced by her successor James I.
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* PeriodPieceModernLanguage: The Shakespearean characters alternate between using flowery Shakespearean English and modern English phrases, purely for RuleOfFunny.
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* PlayingGertrude: [[invoked]] Will asks Condell to play Gertrude in ''Hamlet'' and the actor immediately [[BlatantLies claims that he's too young for the role]] but will give it a try, anyway.
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* WriterOnBoard: The show takes some not-so-subtle digs at modern British society that Ben Elton and David Mitchell aren't particularly fond of. The current state of British railway is a favorite target.
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* WriterOnBoard: The show takes some not-so-subtle digs at modern British society that Ben Elton and David Mitchell aren't particularly fond of. The current state of British railway is a favorite target.target, as is the British class system.
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* CardCarryingVillain: Robert Greene, whose sole motivation to crush Shakespeare is that he's a snob who resents the fact that Shakespeare didn't go to university and yet is a more successful writer than himself.
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* SmugSnake: Robert Greene, very much. To a ''slightly'' lesser extent, Will Kemp, who never tires of reminding people that he's won awards and trained in Italy.
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* Narmtastic: How most of the people interpret Shakespeare's synopsis of Hamlet.
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* Narmtastic: {{Narm}}: How most of the people interpret Shakespeare's synopsis of Hamlet.
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* CreatorCareerSelfDeprecation: A show about a writer of plays who's whiny, has a chip on his shoulder about the class system, and feels like he's underappreciated: score! Ironically, ''Upstart Crow'' ended up being one of the best-received things Ben Elton has written in years.
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* ChristmasSpecial: Currently two extended episodes, in fact, featuring StuntCasting.
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* ChristmasSpecial: Currently two extended episodes, in fact, featuring StuntCasting.episodes.
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** Kit Marlowe is a dashing scoundrel, a shameless womaniser who is happy to abuse his friendship with Will to get his name on plays he had not written a word of. However, he's always in a good mood, and when it comes to Will being in a genuinely ruinous situations he's happy to step in, even at the risk of his own reputation.
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** Kit Marlowe is a dashing scoundrel, a shameless womaniser who is happy to abuse his friendship with Will to get his name on plays he had not written a word of. However, he's always in a good mood, and when it comes to Will being in a genuinely ruinous situations he's happy to step in, even at the risk of his own reputation.
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* OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe: In "If You Prick Me, Do I Not Bleed?", Kit says that a woman accused him of hiding a a baguette in his tights, but it was a misunderstanding and he was just glad to see her.
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* OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe: In "If You Prick Me, Do I Not Bleed?", Kit says that a woman accused him of hiding a a baguette in his tights, but it was a misunderstanding and he was just glad to see her.
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** Indeed, it backfires horribly in "Beware My Sting!", where Will, inspired by his own ''Taming of the Shrew'', tries out Petruchio's "taming" tactics on his own daughter Susanna by trying to get her to agree to obviously untrue things, which he does against the advice of Anne, who's already pointed out that what works in a play doesn't necessarily work in real life. Will does it anyway and Sue grumpily humours him but insists that he's just being annoying. When he finally loses his temper with her and tries to act the lord and master, she epically tells him off because she always thought that he respected her. Will is deeply shaken.
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