Upstart Crow (TV Series)

Star Crossed Lovers (2016)

Rob Rouse: Bottom

Quotes 

• Kate : Kate: Oh, my God, Mr Shakespeare, it's brilliant. Timeless. Deathless! "The Most Tragical History Of Romeo And Julian.''

  Will : WS: Oh, yes That should be Juliet, obviously. Romeo And Julian was but a working title.Early exploratory stuff.It meanteth nothing...

  Bottom : Yeah, right!

  Will : What?

  Bottom : Well, come on, master.We live in t'same house.I've heard you reading out your sonnets.Especially 1 to 226.

  Will : Those poems are about a platonic hierarchical relationship.God's naughty etchings! Why does everybody presume that just because I write 126 love poems to an attractive boy, I must be. I must be some kind of bechambered hugger-tugger.

• Greene : Master Shakey Poet, a word if you please?

  Will : Shakespeare, Master Greene, my name is Shakespeare.

  Greene : Yeah I know your name sirrur, I was addressing you by trade, shakey poet, just as I would address a house builder as Master Builder or a ship's carpenter Master Carpenter.

  Bottom : And what would you call a bear bater, Master Greene?

  Greene : Master Bater.

  Bottom : [aside to Shakespeare]  See what I did there?

  Will : [to Bottom]  Brilliant. Loved it.