A Groatsworth of Wit (comic story)

A Groathsworth of Wit is a Doctor Who Magazine comic story featuring the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler.

Summary
The Shadeys are a race that draws on negative emotions. They choose Robert Greene as a host for powerful negative emotions. By manipulating the dying Green they turn his hatred, bile and jealousy of Shakespeare "up to eleven," giving them enough power to crush the planet.

Characters

 * Ninth Doctor
 * Rose Tyler
 * William Shakespeare
 * Robert Greene
 * Uncle Bloodfinger
 * Woodscrape

Continuity

 * Shakespeare first appears in Doctor Who in "The Executioners," the first episode of DW: The Chase. He later appeared on televised Doctor Who in The Shakespeare Code.
 * The Fourth Doctor wrote out the first draft of Hamlet in BE: The Stranger, The Writer, His Wife and the Mixed Metaphor, and references it in DW: City of Death.

Timeline

 * This story occurs after DW: The Long Game
 * This story occurs before DW: Father's Day