Satirical Blackadderesque sitcom about how friends, family, historical circumstances, and his arch-rival Robert Greene, who first coined the derogatory term upstart crow, ...

Satirical Blackadderesque sitcom about how friends, family, historical circumstances, and his arch-rival Robert Greene, who first coined the derogatory term upstart crow, ...

As Christmas approaches Will is in London rehearsing his new play 'Eighth Night' for the queen and is surprised that the usually hostile Greene is giving out presents, cl ...

Kate wants Will to write a play about a strong woman but, since most theatre goers are male, Will intends for a man to humiliate her. Inspiration comes when elder daughte ...

Needing money to buy the family coat of arms Will is inspired by Kate to devise a new art form and so he decides to invent the musical with the aid of the successful comp ...

Will hopes to write the gory 'Titus Andronicus' to please his patron but is sabotaged by Greene who demands instead a romantic comedy in an exotic setting. About to be se ...

Will is anxious to get a family coat of arms but his father's vulgar reputation thwarts him. When he hears that the Moroccan prince Otello is in town he aims to ingratiat ...

Fleeing the plague in London for Stratford Will, along with servant Bottom, Kate and Kit Marlowe, meets three witches who make a prophesy which will benefit him. Back hom ...

Will has completed his sonnets, dedicated to a fair youth and a dark lady, the latter incurring the wrath of his wife, who makes him sleep in the cow shed. When he presen ...

Will's new play concerns the death of upstart Mary, Queen of Scots by Elizabeth but, after a visit by Kit Marlowe, for whom he has acted as a ghost writer in the past, th ...

In Stratford-on-Avon Shakespeare is having trouble writing 'Romeo and Juliet' and his family's interruptions do not help so he moves back to his London lodgings. Here the ...

Will asks Ellie out to the cinema. There has been a brutal murder in the projection booth. The Chapmans get a brick through their window, and Keating discovers that the s ...

Will and Leonard witness a deadly and deliberate hit-and-run in Grantchester. Geordie traces the car to a pair of decidedly dysfunctional brothers caught in a web of lies ...