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Comedy about William Shakespeare as he starts to make a name for himself in London.

Comedy about William Shakespeare as he starts to make a name for himself in London while also trying to be a good husband and father for his family in Stratford-upon-Avon.

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Dominic Coleman

Tim Downie

Harry Enfield

Jocelyn Jee Esien

Mark Heap

Spencer Jones

Ben Miller

David Mitchell

Helen Monks

Rob Rouse

Steve Speirs

Liza Tarbuck

Gemma Whelan

Paula Wilcox

Rosanna Beacock

Thomas Smith

Joe Willis

Ben Elton

Richard Boden

Gareth Edwards

Chris Sussman

Upstart Crow: Series 3: Episode 3: If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed?

If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed?

Episode 3

Episode 3: If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed?

BBC Two - Upstart Crow, Series 3, If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed?

A brilliant new actor has some surprising views about the authorship of Will's plays.

Shakespearean sitcom. A brilliant new actor has some surprising views about the authorship of Will's plays.

London is full of anti-immigrant rioting. Will looks forward to an age when such sentiments are long gone, but in the meantime he and the players plan to do their bit to help those worse off than themselves with a fund-raising charity gala night. Inflated Pig's Bladder Day is a triumph.

As it happens, Will's newest play, the Merchant of Venice, is also about an oppressed outsider. But who will play the groundbreaking character of Shylock? Step forward the greatest actor of the age, Wolf Hall, a man with amazing stage presence and some rather controversial theories about who really wrote Shakespeare's plays.

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