Notes on a Play (short story)

Notes on a Play
Doctor:	"Magician"
Featuring:	William Shakespeare
Main enemy:	Hamlet's uncle
Main setting:	Denmark
Release details
Part of:	The Shakespeare Notebooks
Release date:	12 June 2014
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Notes on a Play is the first story of The Shakespeare Notebooks, featuring a representation of the Eleventh Doctor.

Summary

These handwritten notes on a single sheet within the Notebooks seem to be Shakespeare's first thoughts on the early scenes of Hamlet. Note that the ghost of Hamlet's father was to take on a rather different aspect originally.

Characters

• Magician
• William Shakespeare
• Hamlet

References

to be added

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• The Doctor references "walking in eternity", (TV: Pyramids of Mars) the Last Great Time War, (TV: The End of the World) and Koquillion. (TV: The Rescue)