Diary Extract (short story)

Diary Extract is the fifth story in The Shakespeare Notebooks, featuring the Fifth Doctor.

Summary
The following extract, apparently transcribed into the Notebooks from William Shakespeare's personal diary for late 1601 (exact date not recorded) describes a meeting to discuss plans for the play that became Twelfth Night''. Richard Burbage was the leading player of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and (together with his older non-acting brother Cuthbert) owned the Globe theatre where they performed.''

''The identity of the third member of the group - referred to in Shakespeare's notes as 'He' or 'that man' - has never been established. The implication is of course obvious from the fact that Shakespeare included it in the Notebooks.''

Characters

 * Fifth Doctor
 * William Shakespeare
 * Richard Burbage

Continuity

 * Burbage question's the Doctor's celery. (TV: The Caves of Androzani, Time Crash)