William Shakespeare

The Doctor claimed to have known a young William Shakespeare, calling him a little boy who never said a word when he didn't need to. The Doctor also recognizes the handwriting in an original draft of Shakespeare's Hamlet as being the Doctor's own - Shakespeare having sprained his wrist writing sonnets. The Doctor also claims to have warned Shakespeare that Hamlet's line "to take up arms against a sea of troubles" was a mixed metaphor, byt that Shakespeare would not listen. (DW: City of Death)

Via the Space-Time Visualizer, te Doctor and his companions watched William Shakespeare in conversation with Elizabeth I. (DW: The Chase)

Charles Dickens used the exclamation, "What the Shakespeare?!" to express alarm. (DW: The Unquiet Dead).


 * An obvious play on the expression, "What the dickens?"

Other stories mentions or quotes

 * Planet of Evil (anecdote by the Doctor)
 * The Mark of the Rani (quoted)
 * The Ultimate Foe (Hamlet quoted)
 * The Empire of Glass (perhaps?)
 * The Unquiet Dead (quoted)