The Dream (short story)

The Dream

Release details

Part of:

The Shakespeare Notebooks

Release date:

12 June 2014

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Diary Extract	A Prologue

The Dream was the sixth story in The Shakespeare Notebooks, featuring a representation of the First Doctor.

Summary[]

One of the strangest sections of the Shakespeare Notebooks comprises a form of "dream diary", in which he apparently recorded characters, situations and images that had come to him in his sleep.

Of particular interest is the entry for 24 June 1594 - the midsummer night's dream that inspired one of his well-loved plays, which appears to have been born entirely from his imagination...

Characters[]

Old Doctor
William Shakespeare
Butterfly King Hrobron
Butterfly Queen Tetynia
Flaxis
Field Major Kryntz
Stoun
Fabricator Stombot
Starvel
Snarg

Worldbuilding[]

On Vortis are a "butterfly" king and queen, each riding a "giant ant" and accompanied by "giant grubs" and "woodlice men".
Taron is a moon of Vortis.
In the live reconstruction of the Fang Rock lighthouse event, Stombot is cast as the Fourth Doctor, Flaxis is Leela, Starvel is Vince Hawkins, Stoun is Lord Henry Palmerdale, Kryntz is Colonel James Skinsale and Snarg is the Rutan.
Shakespeare sees the Sontarans as "War-Goblins", the Doctor as a "White-Haired Old Doctor", and the Rutan Host as a "Green-Eyed Monster".

Notes[]

to be added

Continuity[]

The Sontarans perform a live reconstruction of a Rutan's death at Fang Rock, entitled The Most Glorious Defeat and Most Deserv'd Death of the Trifling Rutan Foe at Fang Rock. It was made to demonstrate the Rutans' "feebleness" against "puny subspecies". (TV: Horror of Fang Rock)
The Sontarans are on Vortis. (TV: The Web Planet)

The Shakespeare Notebooks

Notes on a Play • Exits and Entrances • The True Tragedie of Macbeth • Cymbeline • Diary Extract • The Dream • A Prologue • The True and Most Excellent Comedie of Romeo and Juliet • The Tempest – A Work in Progress • Exit, by Another Means • The Winter's Tale • Antony and Cleopatra • Troilus and Cressida • Pericles • Coriolanus • Master Faustus • The Sonnets • As You Like It • Double Falsehood • Hamlet • Timon of Athens • Hamlet's Soliloquy • Academic Notes • Ye Unearthly Childe • Appendix - The Last Will

Sontaran stories

For the purposes of this list, a "Sontaran story" is one in which one living, authentic Sontaran plays a part within the confines of the story, outside of flashbacks to previous stories and cliffhangers that lead into the following story. For this reason, stories such as The Halloween Apocalypse and Survivors of the Flux are not counted due to the Sontarans' appearance being defined by their importance to following stories. Stories like The End of Time and The Time of the Doctor are also not included due to the Sontarans' appearance being no consequence to the plot of the story. Stories featuring Strax of the Paternoster Gang are only included on the Paternoster Gang story template.

Television

Broadcast	The Time Warrior • The Sontaran Experiment • The Invasion of Time • The Two Doctors • The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky • The Last Sontaran • The Pandorica Opens • The Time of the Doctor • Flux: War of the Sontarans / The Vanquishers

Home video	Untitled 3 • Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans • Mindgame • Battlefield • A Fix with Sontarans

Audio

Silent Warrior • Old Soldiers • Conduct Unbecoming • The Eleven Day Empire • The Shadow Play • Heroes of Sontar • The Five Companions • The First Sontarans • Starlight Robbery • The King of Sontar • Master of the Daleks • Terror of the Sontarans • The Sontaran Ordeal • The Eternity Cage • The Sontarans • The Eternal Battle • The Sontaran Project • Portrait of a Lady • Peepshow • The Moonrakers • The Great Sontaran War • Rearguard • Salvation Nine • The Last Day 1 • The Battle of Giant's Causeway • Born to Die • Sibling Rivalry / Children of the Revolution • In Name Only • The Armageddon Chair

Prose

Shakedown • Lords of the Storm • The Infinity Doctors • The Sontaran Games • The Taking of Chelsea 426 • Blind Terror • The Dream • The Three Little Sontarans • The Three Brothers Gruff • Sontar's Little Helpers • Dr. Tenth • A Soldier's Education • For the Girl Who Has Everything

Comics

The Final Quest • The Outsider • Dragon's Claw • The Gods Walk Among Us • The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic • Pureblood • Conflict of Interests • Unnatural Born Killers • The Betrothal of Sontar • When Worlds Collide • In Their Nature • The Instruments of War • The Judas Goatee • The Honourable Burger • Supremacy of the Cybermen

Video games

Destiny of the Doctors • Dalek Supremacy • The Keys of Time • The Gunpowder Plot • The Doctor and the Dalek

Complete list of appearances

Rutan stories

For the purposes of this list, a "Rutan story" is one in which one living, authentic Rutan plays a part within the confines of the story, outside of flashbacks to previous stories and cliffhangers that lead into the following story.

Television

Broadcast	Horror of Fang Rock

Home video	Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans • Battlefield

Audio

In 2 Minds • The Bellotron Incident • Castle of Fear • The First Sontarans • The Battle of Giant's Causeway • The Children of the Future • In Name Only

Prose

Shakedown • Lords of the Storm • Blind Terror • The Sontaran Games • The Taking of Chelsea 426 • The Dream • The Three Little Sontarans • Beast of Fang Rock • Fear of the Web

Comics

Pureblood • In Their Nature • The Instruments of War