The Shakespeare Code (TV story)

The Shakespeare Code
Doctor:	[[doctor::Tenth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Martha Jones
Main enemy:	Carrionites
Main setting:	1599
Key crew
Writer:	Gareth Roberts
Director:	Charles Palmer
Producer:	Susie Liggat
Release details
Release number:	184
Premiere broadcast:	7th April 2007
Format:	1 45-minute Episode
Production code:	184

The Shakespeare Code was the second episode of the third series of the revived Doctor Who. It was broadcast on the 7th of April 2007.

Cast

• The Doctor — David Tennant
• Martha Jones — Freema Agyeman
• William Shakespeare — Dean Lennox Kelly

Production

• Scenes for this episode were filmed in Coventry, Warwick and at the recreated Globe Theatre in London.

• The title appears to be a play on The Da Vinci Code, which is also a story based around a well-known figure of the Renaissance.

• This will be the second appearance of a famous writer in the newer series (the first being Charles Dickens in the episode The Unquiet Dead)

Plot Holes

• Love's Labour's Won was already being featured on lists of Shakespeare's plays in 1598, the year before this story's setting.