The Shakespeare Code (TV story)

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.