1 00:00:08,011 --> 00:00:11,286 - Sync and corrections by Zac - - www.addic7ed.com - 2 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:19,074 Advertise your product or brand here contact www.SubtitleDB.org today 3 00:00:34,677 --> 00:00:37,446 Who will want a play by William Shakespeare? 4 00:00:40,650 --> 00:00:43,852 I can't spend the rest of my life making gloves. 5 00:00:43,853 --> 00:00:46,356 We have three children. 6 00:00:49,392 --> 00:00:51,660 A player is little better than a beggar. 7 00:00:51,661 --> 00:00:54,996 They say in London, people cry the names of players 8 00:00:54,997 --> 00:00:56,732 as if they were kings. 9 00:00:58,133 --> 00:00:59,568 I dream this for us. 10 00:00:59,569 --> 00:01:02,910 No, Will, your dreams are your own. 11 00:01:03,005 --> 00:01:04,741 Trust me, Ann. 12 00:01:09,081 --> 00:01:10,082 Da? 13 00:01:10,107 --> 00:01:13,110 Good morrow, Prince Hamnet. 14 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:15,880 Ma don't tell the stories proper. 15 00:01:16,309 --> 00:01:17,344 Ah. 16 00:01:19,083 --> 00:01:22,348 Then I will leave Queen Mab with thee. 17 00:01:22,349 --> 00:01:23,949 What's she? 18 00:01:23,950 --> 00:01:27,254 She is a fairy no bigger than a gnat, 19 00:01:27,464 --> 00:01:30,923 and night by night, she creeps into boys' ears 20 00:01:31,199 --> 00:01:33,592 and tells stories of... 21 00:01:33,593 --> 00:01:34,794 what? 22 00:01:35,762 --> 00:01:37,095 Dragons? 23 00:01:37,096 --> 00:01:38,131 Aye. 24 00:01:39,405 --> 00:01:41,807 Dragons. 25 00:01:42,034 --> 00:01:44,937 Can you be satisfied with Mab 'til I return? 26 00:01:46,673 --> 00:01:48,307 Hey. 27 00:01:48,308 --> 00:01:49,542 None of this. 28 00:01:52,596 --> 00:01:54,063 Go on. 29 00:02:11,990 --> 00:02:16,367 One day, I'll buy us the biggest house in Stratford. 30 00:02:16,950 --> 00:02:18,552 I swear it. 31 00:02:32,622 --> 00:02:34,791 I'm to feed them, am I? 32 00:02:39,551 --> 00:02:40,918 I'll send money within the month. 33 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:43,703 Do. Or I'll turn them into the street. 34 00:02:44,555 --> 00:02:48,195 You must bear this to London... For your cousin Southwell. 35 00:02:48,283 --> 00:02:50,758 Southwell's the most hunted man in England. 36 00:02:50,869 --> 00:02:53,471 Father Southwell's a true Catholic. 37 00:02:53,699 --> 00:02:56,674 Aye, Will, and a true writer. 38 00:02:56,699 --> 00:02:58,916 You'd do well to follow his example. 39 00:02:59,010 --> 00:03:01,385 Put your words to the service of God. 40 00:03:01,458 --> 00:03:03,393 I have no care for politics. 41 00:03:03,541 --> 00:03:07,051 This is no politics... This is your soul! 42 00:03:07,052 --> 00:03:09,820 Never forget what those Protestant devils 43 00:03:09,821 --> 00:03:11,624 did to our family. 44 00:03:11,957 --> 00:03:13,327 Remember, Will. 45 00:03:14,059 --> 00:03:15,461 Remember. 46 00:03:19,194 --> 00:03:22,609 Leave it with John Wilkes at the Cross Keys tavern. 47 00:03:22,634 --> 00:03:25,471 And your rosary. 48 00:03:28,491 --> 00:03:33,061 Better to die righteous than to burn for fear. 49 00:03:53,865 --> 00:03:55,232 Pork here! 50 00:03:59,337 --> 00:04:02,172 Pork here! Pork here! 51 00:04:12,918 --> 00:04:14,952 - Get out! - Don't! 52 00:04:14,953 --> 00:04:16,687 Hey! Get off me! 53 00:04:21,627 --> 00:04:23,027 Are you trying to steal from me?! 54 00:04:23,028 --> 00:04:24,862 I'll cut your bloody arm off! 55 00:04:24,863 --> 00:04:27,399 Let me go! Let me go! 56 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:30,267 Piss off, you fat bastard! 57 00:04:30,268 --> 00:04:31,869 Get out, you poxy street rat! 58 00:04:37,042 --> 00:04:38,376 Ohh! 59 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,635 Guide, Sir. New in town? 60 00:05:04,636 --> 00:05:06,571 I-I'll show you all the sights, Sir... 61 00:05:06,572 --> 00:05:11,275 Bowling alleys, card dens, pistol shootin'... 62 00:05:11,276 --> 00:05:15,412 Bears ripped apart by wild dogs... 63 00:05:15,413 --> 00:05:17,915 Your horoscope read by a blind virgin! 64 00:05:17,916 --> 00:05:23,253 With Presto as your guide, London's your oyster! 65 00:05:23,254 --> 00:05:27,191 "London's your oyster." 66 00:05:27,192 --> 00:05:29,259 Why did you write my words, Sir? 67 00:05:29,260 --> 00:05:31,161 Why, Sir? I didn't say no treason. 68 00:05:31,162 --> 00:05:34,131 I hope not... a treasonous oyster will run you through 69 00:05:34,132 --> 00:05:35,933 quicker than a Spanish blade. 70 00:05:35,934 --> 00:05:39,604 Ah. "Treasonous oyster"... That's good, Sir. 71 00:05:40,872 --> 00:05:43,040 Are you a poet, Sir? 72 00:05:43,041 --> 00:05:45,610 You're a great poet. I can tell. 73 00:05:45,611 --> 00:05:47,812 Perhaps you're in London to make your fortune, Sir? 74 00:05:47,813 --> 00:05:50,792 Aye. Which means now, I have none, so farewell. 75 00:05:50,817 --> 00:05:53,285 Sir, I want no money. 76 00:05:53,485 --> 00:05:56,187 It makes me sick to hear you say it. 77 00:05:57,455 --> 00:05:59,023 Where you heading, Sir? 78 00:05:59,024 --> 00:06:00,626 No charge. 79 00:06:03,416 --> 00:06:04,649 The theatre...? 80 00:06:04,674 --> 00:06:05,941 You're a theatre poet! 81 00:06:06,231 --> 00:06:07,965 I've hit it, haven't I? 82 00:06:07,966 --> 00:06:10,617 The best theatre in London's right 'ere, Sir. 83 00:06:10,642 --> 00:06:11,945 Come on! 84 00:06:12,589 --> 00:06:13,789 Come on, Sir. 85 00:06:13,844 --> 00:06:14,844 Where? 86 00:06:14,909 --> 00:06:16,378 Over here. 87 00:06:18,143 --> 00:06:19,343 Come on, Sir! 88 00:06:19,344 --> 00:06:20,811 - Right here, Sir! - Where is it? 89 00:06:20,812 --> 00:06:21,912 And it's free. 90 00:06:21,913 --> 00:06:24,314 The best theatre in London's right here, Sir. 91 00:06:24,315 --> 00:06:26,016 - Hurry! This way! - Almighty Father... 92 00:06:26,017 --> 00:06:27,140 Come on, Sir! 93 00:06:27,165 --> 00:06:29,367 Whose blessed son died 94 00:06:29,588 --> 00:06:31,889 to destroy the works of the devil! 95 00:06:31,890 --> 00:06:33,190 Catholic traitor! 96 00:06:33,191 --> 00:06:35,472 - Catholic dog! - Die, Catholic! 97 00:06:40,098 --> 00:06:41,899 Go to hell, Catholic! 98 00:06:46,838 --> 00:06:50,007 Hang, Catholic scum! 99 00:06:50,008 --> 00:06:51,542 Watch, Will. 100 00:06:51,543 --> 00:06:54,780 Watch these devils murder your uncle. 101 00:06:55,925 --> 00:06:58,360 God have mercy on their souls. 102 00:07:00,552 --> 00:07:03,754 God have mercy on their souls, Will. 103 00:07:11,863 --> 00:07:13,264 Oi! 104 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:11,589 Kill you! 105 00:08:13,792 --> 00:08:15,260 I'll kill you! 106 00:08:20,999 --> 00:08:23,033 Catholic! Catholic! 107 00:08:23,034 --> 00:08:24,469 Catholic! 108 00:08:40,185 --> 00:08:41,451 O God... 109 00:08:41,452 --> 00:08:42,787 who knows us to be 110 00:08:42,788 --> 00:08:46,328 in the midst of so many and great dangers 111 00:08:46,658 --> 00:08:49,459 that by reason of the frailty of our nature, 112 00:08:49,460 --> 00:08:52,663 we cannot always stand upright. 113 00:08:52,664 --> 00:08:55,632 Grant us such strength and protection 114 00:08:55,633 --> 00:08:56,901 as may support us 115 00:08:56,902 --> 00:09:00,137 and carry us through all temptations... 116 00:09:26,815 --> 00:09:30,500 Where is Southwell? 117 00:09:30,501 --> 00:09:32,417 Hail Mary... 118 00:09:32,521 --> 00:09:33,722 Hail Mary full of grace... 119 00:09:33,872 --> 00:09:36,394 Spare me your Popish idolatry. 120 00:09:36,908 --> 00:09:39,745 I believe in the holy Catholic Church. 121 00:09:39,911 --> 00:09:41,527 Yes. 122 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:47,184 But our gracious queen and all who love her 123 00:09:47,185 --> 00:09:49,053 believe in the one true Protestant faith 124 00:09:49,054 --> 00:09:52,398 and will not rest until we wipe the Catholic filth from England. 125 00:09:53,659 --> 00:09:56,495 You will burn in Hell. 126 00:09:56,606 --> 00:09:58,039 Perhaps. 127 00:09:58,196 --> 00:10:01,575 But you will get there sooner. 128 00:10:01,696 --> 00:10:02,724 Hmm? 129 00:10:02,902 --> 00:10:04,769 For the love of thy only son, 130 00:10:04,770 --> 00:10:06,703 our savior, Jesus Christ. 131 00:10:06,704 --> 00:10:07,538 Amen. 132 00:10:17,215 --> 00:10:18,548 I'm gonna die! 133 00:10:18,549 --> 00:10:21,218 Be still down there, you hear? It's slipping! 134 00:10:58,423 --> 00:11:00,357 Sir, a pint for you? Please. Come on. 135 00:11:00,358 --> 00:11:03,427 Thy brow is whiter than a dove, my love. 136 00:11:04,930 --> 00:11:08,432 Brighter than all the stars in the heavens above. 137 00:11:08,433 --> 00:11:09,699 I am a mere maid... 138 00:11:09,700 --> 00:11:10,801 "I am a mere maid." 139 00:11:10,802 --> 00:11:12,469 I am a mere maid, 140 00:11:12,470 --> 00:11:15,037 unused to the ways of men! 141 00:11:15,076 --> 00:11:17,323 Stinking, vile pig's wallow! 142 00:11:17,362 --> 00:11:21,701 This mere mortal is stealing my fair maid! 143 00:11:21,758 --> 00:11:25,971 I shall smite him with a mighty clap from Heaven! 144 00:11:27,853 --> 00:11:29,987 Come away with me, my love! 145 00:11:29,988 --> 00:11:30,988 Boring! 146 00:11:30,989 --> 00:11:32,556 - Away! - Who wrote this? 147 00:11:32,557 --> 00:11:35,359 - Come away with me, my love. - Aaghhh! Rhythm! 148 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:37,061 Damn you, Richard! Rhythm! 149 00:11:37,062 --> 00:11:38,283 Rhythm!! 150 00:11:38,814 --> 00:11:41,848 - Your son is ruining my play! - Who are you? 151 00:11:41,873 --> 00:11:43,307 I'll bloody ruin you! 152 00:11:43,558 --> 00:11:44,820 It's a disaster! 153 00:11:44,860 --> 00:11:47,094 Oh, really? I thought it was going quite well. 154 00:11:47,118 --> 00:11:50,053 I told you to do no more Baxter plays! 155 00:11:50,141 --> 00:11:51,707 Oh, the oracle speaks! 156 00:11:51,732 --> 00:11:52,660 Ohhh! 157 00:11:52,763 --> 00:11:53,930 He's here. 158 00:11:56,681 --> 00:11:58,748 Get off the stage! 159 00:11:58,749 --> 00:12:01,472 Waste of time! 160 00:12:01,590 --> 00:12:02,826 Where is it? 161 00:12:04,055 --> 00:12:05,990 You said it was finished! 162 00:12:06,139 --> 00:12:10,995 I've been far too busy on Her Majesty's secret service 163 00:12:10,996 --> 00:12:12,163 to write. 164 00:12:14,599 --> 00:12:17,497 Kit, please. 165 00:12:17,936 --> 00:12:20,437 I need a Marlowe play. 166 00:12:20,438 --> 00:12:22,007 Obviously. 167 00:12:23,674 --> 00:12:26,610 But the unfortunate truth is, 168 00:12:26,611 --> 00:12:29,708 I am now bound to Henslowe of the Rose. 169 00:12:29,764 --> 00:12:30,764 Bound? 170 00:12:30,765 --> 00:12:32,600 By exclusive contract. 171 00:12:32,951 --> 00:12:34,517 Henslowe pays me not to write. 172 00:12:34,518 --> 00:12:35,785 Not to write?! 173 00:12:35,786 --> 00:12:37,287 It's very New Age. 174 00:12:37,288 --> 00:12:38,823 New Age? 175 00:12:40,158 --> 00:12:42,459 I paid you a fortune. 176 00:12:42,460 --> 00:12:44,794 - But Henslowe... - Stuff Henslowe! 177 00:12:45,011 --> 00:12:49,199 This is the Theatre, and I built it! 178 00:12:49,504 --> 00:12:52,569 Without me, there would be no theatre in England, 179 00:12:52,570 --> 00:12:55,005 and Christopher Marlowe 180 00:12:55,381 --> 00:12:59,676 would be just another arse-swiving nobody. 181 00:12:59,677 --> 00:13:05,795 As I said... An exclusive contract. 182 00:13:09,995 --> 00:13:11,431 We're leaving. 183 00:13:15,693 --> 00:13:17,995 Burbage! 184 00:13:17,996 --> 00:13:20,697 - Lord Hunsdon, leaving so soon? - Burbage! 185 00:13:20,698 --> 00:13:22,665 The Morris dance is yet to come. 186 00:13:23,935 --> 00:13:26,503 Does your husband forget that his license 187 00:13:26,504 --> 00:13:28,505 rests on my patronage? 188 00:13:28,506 --> 00:13:30,007 - Your Lordsh... - Burbage! 189 00:13:30,008 --> 00:13:33,010 Serve me something more appetizing than this excrement, 190 00:13:33,011 --> 00:13:36,713 or I shall find a company more worthy of my name. 191 00:13:36,963 --> 00:13:39,132 Poxy old prick. 192 00:13:43,254 --> 00:13:45,255 Do something! 193 00:13:45,256 --> 00:13:47,357 James, I don't... 194 00:13:47,358 --> 00:13:50,193 I-I-I wa... 195 00:13:56,300 --> 00:13:59,603 Kemp, get out there and calm things down! 196 00:14:00,704 --> 00:14:02,239 What?! 197 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:05,543 I said get out there and calm things down! 198 00:14:09,049 --> 00:14:11,617 Now! Get out there! 199 00:14:11,782 --> 00:14:13,650 Jesus wept. 200 00:14:13,651 --> 00:14:15,385 Yeah, let Kemp do it all. 201 00:14:15,386 --> 00:14:16,920 Can't even get his end away 202 00:14:16,921 --> 00:14:21,558 without being interrupted by some cock-blocking bastard! 203 00:14:25,729 --> 00:14:27,464 We paid for a play! 204 00:14:27,465 --> 00:14:28,665 Oh, this is dumb, eh? 205 00:14:28,666 --> 00:14:29,899 Hey! 206 00:14:29,900 --> 00:14:31,401 Where's the play?! 207 00:14:31,402 --> 00:14:32,769 - This is shit! - Hey! 208 00:14:32,770 --> 00:14:35,238 It's more like tragedy! 209 00:14:35,239 --> 00:14:37,274 Give us a play! 210 00:14:37,275 --> 00:14:38,575 Rubbish! 211 00:14:38,576 --> 00:14:41,111 Yes, you! Now shove off! 212 00:15:00,764 --> 00:15:03,634 Yeah? 213 00:15:19,483 --> 00:15:22,185 All right! It's on! 214 00:15:48,146 --> 00:15:51,348 Friends! Patrons! 215 00:15:51,349 --> 00:15:53,583 Countrymen! 216 00:15:53,584 --> 00:15:56,486 Lend me your ears! 217 00:15:56,487 --> 00:15:58,221 A word! A word! 218 00:16:01,660 --> 00:16:05,428 Tomorrow, there will be a free performance 219 00:16:05,429 --> 00:16:06,896 for one and all. 220 00:16:06,897 --> 00:16:08,265 We don't want this shit again! 221 00:16:08,266 --> 00:16:12,669 No, no! It will be a magnificent new play. 222 00:16:12,670 --> 00:16:14,604 Who's it by? 223 00:16:14,605 --> 00:16:16,439 Ahh... 224 00:16:18,776 --> 00:16:20,343 Let's torch the place! 225 00:16:25,083 --> 00:16:28,785 The great Christopher Marlowe! 226 00:16:28,786 --> 00:16:31,354 "Holler ye pamper'd jades of Asia"? 227 00:16:31,355 --> 00:16:35,625 Ah, yes. "Holler ye pamper'd jades of Asia"! 228 00:16:35,626 --> 00:16:36,793 Ha ha! 229 00:16:36,794 --> 00:16:40,197 But this new play is even greater 230 00:16:40,198 --> 00:16:42,885 than the great "Tamburlaine the Great." 231 00:16:42,954 --> 00:16:44,254 What's it called? 232 00:16:44,568 --> 00:16:45,768 Uhh... 233 00:16:45,769 --> 00:16:48,638 "Tamburlaine... 234 00:16:48,639 --> 00:16:50,473 the Ghost"! 235 00:16:50,474 --> 00:16:53,210 "Tamburlaine the Ghost"! 236 00:16:53,211 --> 00:16:55,612 A ghost? Oh, Marlowe would do that brilliant! 237 00:16:57,081 --> 00:17:01,884 Now, leave us now and come again tomorrow. 238 00:17:02,973 --> 00:17:05,374 And free beer in the courtyard! 239 00:17:08,659 --> 00:17:10,794 Uh, f-for the next half-hour! 240 00:17:39,089 --> 00:17:40,190 What? 241 00:17:40,518 --> 00:17:43,688 I would speak with Master James Burbage? 242 00:17:49,167 --> 00:17:51,268 You're speaking with his son. 243 00:17:51,269 --> 00:17:53,468 I have a letter of introduction 244 00:17:53,515 --> 00:17:55,037 from Master Roland Gibbs, esquire. 245 00:17:55,038 --> 00:17:55,976 Who? 246 00:17:56,001 --> 00:17:57,898 He owned the theatre troupe I played with. 247 00:17:58,023 --> 00:18:00,109 Where did you play? 248 00:18:00,110 --> 00:18:02,549 Warwickshire... mainly. 249 00:18:03,614 --> 00:18:05,182 Warwickshire. 250 00:18:08,519 --> 00:18:09,786 And I've also... 251 00:18:11,522 --> 00:18:12,990 written. 252 00:18:20,284 --> 00:18:21,284 Sir! 253 00:18:21,613 --> 00:18:23,949 Prithee, good Sir! 254 00:18:25,182 --> 00:18:27,780 Aye, fair maid? 255 00:18:27,961 --> 00:18:30,964 Sorry. I-I thought... 256 00:18:32,914 --> 00:18:35,712 I must speak with Master James Burbage. 257 00:18:35,713 --> 00:18:37,547 Are you a debt collector? 258 00:18:37,548 --> 00:18:40,383 No... I'm an actor. 259 00:18:40,384 --> 00:18:41,584 Worse. 260 00:18:41,905 --> 00:18:44,307 And I have a play. 261 00:18:47,798 --> 00:18:49,492 Of any quality? 262 00:18:49,493 --> 00:18:50,827 Yes. 263 00:18:50,828 --> 00:18:52,363 I think so. 264 00:18:54,144 --> 00:18:55,898 Then declaim. 265 00:18:55,899 --> 00:18:57,166 What? 266 00:18:57,355 --> 00:19:00,002 I would not waste my father's time. 267 00:19:00,370 --> 00:19:01,744 Your father? 268 00:19:01,769 --> 00:19:02,889 Yes. 269 00:19:04,246 --> 00:19:05,717 Begin. 270 00:19:06,544 --> 00:19:08,111 Uh... 271 00:19:14,685 --> 00:19:18,040 "So, John of France..." 272 00:19:18,885 --> 00:19:21,759 had you done at first as now you do, 273 00:19:22,626 --> 00:19:27,193 how many civil towns had stood untouched 274 00:19:27,731 --> 00:19:31,368 that now are turned to ragged heaps of stones? 275 00:19:31,369 --> 00:19:35,177 How many people's lives might'st thou have saved, 276 00:19:35,606 --> 00:19:37,975 "that are untimely"... 277 00:19:39,877 --> 00:19:43,626 "sunk into their graves?" 278 00:19:45,251 --> 00:19:46,274 Sir? 279 00:19:46,564 --> 00:19:48,800 Uh, uh, fair maiden? 280 00:20:03,401 --> 00:20:04,826 Who are you? 281 00:20:05,505 --> 00:20:06,551 No one. 282 00:20:06,590 --> 00:20:07,958 No one? 283 00:20:09,141 --> 00:20:12,043 No one... yet. 284 00:20:12,145 --> 00:20:13,246 Yet? 285 00:20:14,857 --> 00:20:19,462 Seems this no one desires to be someone. 286 00:20:29,327 --> 00:20:30,961 Come in. 287 00:20:40,371 --> 00:20:41,604 But listen! 288 00:20:41,605 --> 00:20:44,674 Tomorrow, the masses will expect 289 00:20:44,675 --> 00:20:46,776 to see Marlowe's newest masterpiece. 290 00:20:46,777 --> 00:20:49,112 Brilliant plan, James! Brilliant! 291 00:20:49,113 --> 00:20:50,881 We're stuffed! 292 00:20:50,882 --> 00:20:52,382 Shut up! 293 00:20:52,383 --> 00:20:54,184 James! 294 00:20:54,185 --> 00:20:55,618 James. 295 00:20:55,619 --> 00:20:57,487 Leave me alone! 296 00:20:57,488 --> 00:20:58,688 All right. 297 00:20:58,689 --> 00:21:00,657 Baxter has written a new play. 298 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:03,994 Now, we can pass it off as Marlowe's. 299 00:21:03,995 --> 00:21:06,529 No one'll believe his dog's vomit is Marlowe! 300 00:21:06,530 --> 00:21:07,730 How dare you... 301 00:21:07,731 --> 00:21:09,567 I have a play! 302 00:21:10,568 --> 00:21:12,402 Who are you? 303 00:21:12,692 --> 00:21:14,470 Um... William Shakespeare. 304 00:21:14,495 --> 00:21:15,629 Never heard of you. 305 00:21:15,654 --> 00:21:16,907 Just listen to him, Father. 306 00:21:16,908 --> 00:21:19,576 I'm an actor and... I'm not hiring actors! 307 00:21:19,577 --> 00:21:21,341 And my play's called "Edward the III." 308 00:21:21,366 --> 00:21:24,468 Ohh! God! A history play? 309 00:21:24,682 --> 00:21:26,984 I've written an enchanting pastoral. 310 00:21:26,985 --> 00:21:28,886 Pastoral?! No, no! 311 00:21:28,887 --> 00:21:30,921 It's shit like that got us into this frigging mess 312 00:21:30,922 --> 00:21:32,322 in the first place! 313 00:21:32,489 --> 00:21:35,558 Mine's about a heroic English king! 314 00:21:35,559 --> 00:21:36,903 Edward. 315 00:21:37,824 --> 00:21:40,263 And his son, the Black Prince. 316 00:21:40,491 --> 00:21:44,495 There's love, war, death, and betrayal. 317 00:21:45,436 --> 00:21:47,437 Is there any comedy? 318 00:21:47,925 --> 00:21:52,089 Um... the Scottish characters are quite funny. 319 00:21:52,558 --> 00:21:55,212 Yeah. Scots are funny. 320 00:21:55,425 --> 00:21:56,992 What happens in the end? 321 00:21:57,386 --> 00:22:00,792 The English king triumphs over the deceitful French. 322 00:22:00,878 --> 00:22:02,111 Well, everyone hates the French. 323 00:22:03,793 --> 00:22:05,226 I'll play the Black Prince! 324 00:22:05,457 --> 00:22:07,191 I'll do the funny Scot! 325 00:22:08,627 --> 00:22:09,628 Not too many words. 326 00:22:09,653 --> 00:22:10,853 Silence! 327 00:22:14,366 --> 00:22:15,366 I... 328 00:22:15,367 --> 00:22:17,336 Baxter, shut up! 329 00:22:19,995 --> 00:22:21,891 It'd only take a second. I pro... 330 00:22:23,795 --> 00:22:26,563 Mm. Yeah. Mm. 331 00:22:26,768 --> 00:22:28,603 Maybe. Maybe. 332 00:22:29,294 --> 00:22:31,015 Oh, no. No! No! 333 00:22:31,016 --> 00:22:31,817 No! 334 00:22:31,818 --> 00:22:34,285 No, no, no, no! 335 00:22:35,576 --> 00:22:38,278 Will you please do that somewhere else?! 336 00:22:47,176 --> 00:22:49,711 Yeah. Nnn. Nnn. 337 00:22:52,347 --> 00:22:53,871 A piece of shit. 338 00:22:53,896 --> 00:22:54,917 Ha ha! Da ha! 339 00:22:54,942 --> 00:22:58,527 But we can make it work. 340 00:22:58,674 --> 00:22:59,775 What? 341 00:23:01,767 --> 00:23:04,131 You rewrite with Baxter while we rehearse. 342 00:23:04,195 --> 00:23:06,429 We have a play! 343 00:23:08,168 --> 00:23:10,003 Our queen's life is in danger. 344 00:23:10,004 --> 00:23:12,205 The Catholic priest and poet Robert Southwell 345 00:23:12,206 --> 00:23:15,174 continues to foment rebellion with his propaganda, 346 00:23:15,175 --> 00:23:18,813 printed on secret presses right here in London. 347 00:23:18,907 --> 00:23:20,575 Make no mistake... 348 00:23:20,748 --> 00:23:23,750 Southwell's words are as dangerous as any armada. 349 00:23:23,751 --> 00:23:25,919 We cannot rule unless we rule our subjects' minds. 350 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:28,689 Mr. Topcliffe, when will you find him? 351 00:23:29,794 --> 00:23:32,129 When God allows it. 352 00:23:32,193 --> 00:23:34,194 Which is why I must again draw the council's attention 353 00:23:34,195 --> 00:23:36,062 to these so-called theatres... 354 00:23:36,063 --> 00:23:39,387 these snares set by the devil to catch souls. 355 00:23:39,412 --> 00:23:42,414 Always this. We are speaking of the security of our realm. 356 00:23:42,537 --> 00:23:46,105 God will grant us victory only if we are righteous. 357 00:23:46,106 --> 00:23:48,342 The theatres must be destroyed once and for all. 358 00:23:48,343 --> 00:23:50,770 You wrote a play at the university, did you not, 359 00:23:50,795 --> 00:23:53,247 Mr. Topcliffe? It was a work of moral guidance. 360 00:23:53,248 --> 00:23:56,283 But the theatregoer is deaf to morality. 361 00:23:56,284 --> 00:24:00,387 Enough! Mr. Topcliffe, find Southwell and find him now. 362 00:24:25,980 --> 00:24:27,314 Get anything? 363 00:24:27,315 --> 00:24:29,483 - A treasure. - Give it. 364 00:24:30,124 --> 00:24:32,052 You frog-mouthed little light-head! What's this? 365 00:24:32,077 --> 00:24:33,345 No! 366 00:24:34,544 --> 00:24:36,011 Your regular's... 367 00:24:36,223 --> 00:24:37,991 What's he doin' here? 368 00:24:37,992 --> 00:24:39,293 He won't be staying. 369 00:24:39,294 --> 00:24:40,980 My French fanny, he won't. 370 00:24:41,596 --> 00:24:44,399 Get downstairs and get rid o' Rat Face 371 00:24:46,233 --> 00:24:47,473 And you stink. 372 00:24:49,191 --> 00:24:51,012 You won't need her soon. 373 00:24:51,839 --> 00:24:53,656 This letter's Catholic. 374 00:24:53,980 --> 00:24:56,374 I'll take it to Topcliffe himself. 375 00:24:56,606 --> 00:24:58,807 Topcliffe. 376 00:24:59,113 --> 00:25:00,804 They say that man's the Devil. 377 00:25:00,970 --> 00:25:02,718 I cut him. 378 00:25:03,008 --> 00:25:05,777 - Who? - The Catholic. 379 00:25:05,802 --> 00:25:07,869 Topcliffe will love me for that. 380 00:25:08,088 --> 00:25:09,688 He'll pay gold for this treasure. 381 00:25:09,713 --> 00:25:11,747 And then you can quit this place, dear sis, 382 00:25:11,993 --> 00:25:14,954 and not be so afflicted of your tiredness. 383 00:25:16,057 --> 00:25:17,257 You cut him? 384 00:25:17,321 --> 00:25:20,256 I cut him deep. 385 00:25:28,415 --> 00:25:30,050 Is he finished yet? 386 00:25:36,896 --> 00:25:38,263 What happened to your hand? 387 00:25:38,319 --> 00:25:41,072 Oh, I was... I was opening an oyster. 388 00:25:41,290 --> 00:25:43,095 You need a scribe. 389 00:25:44,625 --> 00:25:47,160 Yes, I am that most useless of creatures... 390 00:25:47,161 --> 00:25:48,362 An educated woman. 391 00:25:48,363 --> 00:25:50,439 It seems that women are only good 392 00:25:50,464 --> 00:25:53,132 for ruling the nation, rearing children, and whoring. 393 00:25:53,334 --> 00:25:56,203 I have yet to decide which path I shall choose. 394 00:25:58,226 --> 00:26:00,294 My father lets me be the company copyist 395 00:26:00,405 --> 00:26:03,007 because it saves him a great deal of money. 396 00:26:05,079 --> 00:26:07,709 I am yours. Dictate. 397 00:26:10,050 --> 00:26:11,686 All right. Um... 398 00:26:15,373 --> 00:26:17,975 "Let me..." 399 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:23,196 have her... 400 00:26:23,197 --> 00:26:24,764 likened... 401 00:26:24,765 --> 00:26:27,166 - We need that scene now! - "...to the sun"... 402 00:26:31,291 --> 00:26:33,258 I've improved it! 403 00:26:33,674 --> 00:26:34,797 "She doth"... 404 00:26:35,125 --> 00:26:39,269 "She doth bedazzle gazers like the sun"? 405 00:26:40,548 --> 00:26:43,783 Your schooling was obviously very rustic. 406 00:26:43,784 --> 00:26:45,685 "Bedazzle" is not a word. 407 00:26:45,686 --> 00:26:47,879 The word is "dazzle"! Change it. 408 00:26:47,904 --> 00:26:49,705 "Bedazzle" sounds better. 409 00:26:49,757 --> 00:26:51,558 It fits the rhythm, and the meaning's clear. 410 00:26:51,559 --> 00:26:54,561 "To dazzle"... "bedazzle." 411 00:26:54,562 --> 00:26:56,463 You can't just make up words! 412 00:26:56,464 --> 00:26:58,064 Well, someone must! 413 00:26:58,065 --> 00:27:01,073 Otherwise, we'd still be grunting or speaking Latin. 414 00:27:01,602 --> 00:27:04,604 Yes, educated people must, 415 00:27:04,605 --> 00:27:07,807 not farmboys from Warwickshire. 416 00:27:07,808 --> 00:27:09,041 Glovemaker's my trade. 417 00:27:09,066 --> 00:27:10,588 Exactly! 418 00:27:10,621 --> 00:27:11,971 Change... the... word! 419 00:27:12,046 --> 00:27:13,613 No! 420 00:27:13,614 --> 00:27:15,426 I like "bedazzle." 421 00:27:15,451 --> 00:27:17,793 As senior poet, I insist that this... 422 00:27:17,818 --> 00:27:21,422 Oh, for Christ's sake, Baxter! Shut up and give me the pages! 423 00:27:24,111 --> 00:27:25,612 Uhhh.. 424 00:27:25,793 --> 00:27:27,661 "Be... dazzled." 425 00:27:27,662 --> 00:27:30,330 Yes, I liked "bedazzled," too, Richard. 426 00:27:32,203 --> 00:27:36,474 How many civil towns had stood untouched 427 00:27:36,671 --> 00:27:41,007 are now untimely sunk into their graves! 428 00:27:41,008 --> 00:27:42,018 How many... 429 00:27:42,043 --> 00:27:44,102 When he gets excited, he swords the air 430 00:27:44,127 --> 00:27:45,440 like he's chopping wood. 431 00:27:45,471 --> 00:27:47,972 I call him "The Carpenter." He thinks it's a compliment. 432 00:27:48,082 --> 00:27:50,116 With open blows like the continual laboring. 433 00:27:50,117 --> 00:27:51,486 For what men's acts... 434 00:27:56,457 --> 00:27:58,192 The theatre? 435 00:28:00,427 --> 00:28:03,196 Come to make his fortune, he said. 436 00:28:03,197 --> 00:28:05,799 He was a Catholic, so I cut him. 437 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:07,862 Cut his hand deep. 438 00:28:08,008 --> 00:28:09,375 You have served God well. 439 00:28:09,470 --> 00:28:11,407 - Show him out! - Stay, Sir! 440 00:28:12,184 --> 00:28:15,586 I-I-I beg thee, Sir, for my pains, Sir, 441 00:28:15,815 --> 00:28:17,517 s-some gold. 442 00:28:18,687 --> 00:28:20,020 Gold? 443 00:28:20,380 --> 00:28:22,048 Thou hast had thine meat. 444 00:28:22,049 --> 00:28:24,080 What woulds't thou have with gold? 445 00:28:24,139 --> 00:28:28,283 Well, I... M-my sister Sir, she... 446 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:29,759 She is virtuous? Yes Sir. 447 00:28:29,791 --> 00:28:32,726 Virtue is its own reward. 448 00:28:32,751 --> 00:28:34,952 But, Sir. 449 00:28:35,093 --> 00:28:37,298 Sir! Your Lordship! 450 00:28:38,065 --> 00:28:39,665 Your lordship! 451 00:28:43,804 --> 00:28:46,339 No!! 452 00:28:46,340 --> 00:28:49,242 It's not working! 453 00:28:49,243 --> 00:28:50,303 What can we do?! 454 00:28:50,328 --> 00:28:54,164 I'm sure our young genius can think of something. 455 00:28:54,873 --> 00:28:56,881 Invent some more words? 456 00:28:57,852 --> 00:28:59,754 Uhh... 457 00:29:14,669 --> 00:29:16,069 I... 458 00:29:16,070 --> 00:29:17,176 Didn't think so. Now... 459 00:29:18,233 --> 00:29:20,336 Oh, Christ! 460 00:29:23,325 --> 00:29:27,581 I, William Shakespeare, Catholic, do swear 461 00:29:27,582 --> 00:29:31,450 to suffer all persecution, imprisonment, and torment 462 00:29:31,451 --> 00:29:33,452 rather than submit to Protestant rule. 463 00:29:33,453 --> 00:29:36,541 And I, Robert Southwell, do witness 464 00:29:36,891 --> 00:29:39,635 that thou art sworn to protect the one true religion, 465 00:29:40,072 --> 00:29:42,941 even unto death. 466 00:29:43,130 --> 00:29:44,864 Unto death. 467 00:29:52,817 --> 00:29:54,083 Birds. 468 00:29:57,266 --> 00:29:58,501 Birds! 469 00:29:58,526 --> 00:29:59,626 What? 470 00:29:59,814 --> 00:30:01,717 The French could be attacked by birds. 471 00:30:01,742 --> 00:30:02,874 Birds?! 472 00:30:02,899 --> 00:30:05,165 Crows. Or... ravens. 473 00:30:05,190 --> 00:30:06,381 As if... 474 00:30:07,343 --> 00:30:11,302 as if their refusal to recognize Edwards as king 475 00:30:11,834 --> 00:30:14,002 has offended nature. 476 00:30:14,404 --> 00:30:16,537 Inexplicably, the sky darkens. 477 00:30:16,698 --> 00:30:19,335 The ravens circle, the French panic, 478 00:30:19,421 --> 00:30:22,389 and the outnumbered English triumph! 479 00:30:22,569 --> 00:30:23,603 Ridiculous! 480 00:30:23,604 --> 00:30:25,139 Brilliant! 481 00:30:26,607 --> 00:30:27,905 It's brilliant. 482 00:30:28,061 --> 00:30:30,496 Yes. 483 00:30:30,567 --> 00:30:32,801 Yes. 484 00:30:33,013 --> 00:30:34,512 It's brilliant! 485 00:30:34,894 --> 00:30:36,051 Brilliant! 486 00:30:42,272 --> 00:30:44,440 Oi! Look to your parts. 487 00:30:44,659 --> 00:30:46,919 Tomorrow, we continue early. 488 00:30:48,196 --> 00:30:49,797 Alice! 489 00:30:55,686 --> 00:30:56,811 Birds! 490 00:30:56,855 --> 00:30:59,092 We've not formally been introduced. 491 00:31:00,175 --> 00:31:01,326 Richard Burbage. 492 00:31:01,351 --> 00:31:03,486 William Shakespeare. 493 00:31:03,573 --> 00:31:06,341 And this ugly arse is Autolycus Brewit, 494 00:31:07,047 --> 00:31:08,948 the second best actor in the company. 495 00:31:08,949 --> 00:31:10,717 In thy dreams, dick-wit. 496 00:31:11,952 --> 00:31:13,720 Come... drink with us. 497 00:31:13,721 --> 00:31:15,938 Well, I have to do tomorrow's changes. 498 00:31:15,963 --> 00:31:17,496 Do them later. 499 00:31:17,608 --> 00:31:18,954 'Tis already late. 500 00:31:18,979 --> 00:31:20,812 Then do them early. 501 00:31:20,879 --> 00:31:25,383 We must live fast, die young, and leave a pox-ridden corpse! 502 00:31:29,337 --> 00:31:32,005 Henslowe is trying to ruin us, 503 00:31:32,006 --> 00:31:34,261 but we don't need his poxy playwrights. 504 00:31:34,526 --> 00:31:35,694 We have you. 505 00:31:36,211 --> 00:31:38,679 Aye, that we do! 506 00:31:38,738 --> 00:31:40,906 You're dressed as a man. 507 00:31:40,931 --> 00:31:42,099 Mm-hmm. 508 00:31:42,124 --> 00:31:44,273 'Tis easier to go abroad at night like this. 509 00:31:44,298 --> 00:31:45,944 Methinks thou art a pretty fellow. 510 00:31:46,053 --> 00:31:48,522 - Ooh. Sodomite! - Sodomite! 511 00:31:48,618 --> 00:31:51,444 Ale, wench! A moment, Alice! 512 00:31:51,726 --> 00:31:55,623 My acting... 'tis great, 'tis not? 513 00:31:58,537 --> 00:32:00,013 Speak truth! 514 00:32:00,173 --> 00:32:02,041 Great? Yes. 515 00:32:02,716 --> 00:32:05,877 Perhaps... even a little... too great. 516 00:32:05,878 --> 00:32:08,443 Too great? How? 517 00:32:09,749 --> 00:32:10,913 Well... 518 00:32:11,343 --> 00:32:16,847 when actors act, they hold a mirror up to nature, as if were. 519 00:32:17,171 --> 00:32:18,416 A mirror up to nature? 520 00:32:18,417 --> 00:32:19,584 As opposed to carpentry. 521 00:32:20,015 --> 00:32:23,421 So that an audience can recognize themselves. 522 00:32:23,773 --> 00:32:27,272 Most audiences are common, like myself, 523 00:32:27,297 --> 00:32:33,546 So if you're too great, the audience... will be confused. 524 00:32:34,972 --> 00:32:36,673 That's my problem. 525 00:32:38,308 --> 00:32:40,006 I am too great. 526 00:32:40,990 --> 00:32:43,053 You are a genius, Will Shakespeare. 527 00:32:43,686 --> 00:32:46,816 A genius of birds, so I hear. 528 00:32:46,817 --> 00:32:49,318 Caw! Caw! 529 00:32:49,319 --> 00:32:50,787 Caw! 530 00:32:53,691 --> 00:32:56,973 Master Shakespeare... 531 00:32:57,043 --> 00:33:00,812 I hear you're quite the birdsmith. 532 00:33:02,199 --> 00:33:03,999 Don't believe I've had the pleasure. 533 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,755 Ohhhh! Adorable. 534 00:33:06,804 --> 00:33:09,372 He's so... rustic. 535 00:33:09,373 --> 00:33:12,041 What's your business, Master...? 536 00:33:12,042 --> 00:33:16,545 Robert Greene, founding member of the University Wits. 537 00:33:16,546 --> 00:33:21,150 And my business is to inform you 538 00:33:21,151 --> 00:33:23,687 that you have no business 539 00:33:23,688 --> 00:33:26,355 imagining that all one needs to become one of us 540 00:33:26,356 --> 00:33:30,193 is a few of your provincial stage tricks. 541 00:33:30,194 --> 00:33:31,245 No, no, no, no, no, no. 542 00:33:31,270 --> 00:33:34,338 A true writer needs an understanding 543 00:33:34,363 --> 00:33:39,367 of the classics... A university education. 544 00:33:39,469 --> 00:33:44,207 Then I must write false, which I hold as no great sin, 545 00:33:44,208 --> 00:33:45,508 as lies are to a writer 546 00:33:45,509 --> 00:33:48,544 what wood is to a carpenter... material. 547 00:33:53,317 --> 00:33:56,261 Do not duel with a duelist, 548 00:33:56,887 --> 00:34:00,089 lest thy lose thy jewels.. 549 00:34:02,326 --> 00:34:04,728 Challenge him, Will! 550 00:34:04,729 --> 00:34:06,395 Oh, no. Not I. 551 00:34:06,396 --> 00:34:08,397 A shilling on Will! 552 00:34:08,542 --> 00:34:10,533 - No, Richard. - Yes! 553 00:34:10,534 --> 00:34:14,704 I'll take it... Two more on Greene! 554 00:34:14,705 --> 00:34:15,739 I do withdraw. 555 00:34:15,740 --> 00:34:18,674 Oh! The worm turns, does he? 556 00:34:18,675 --> 00:34:24,047 Inch back to whatever shithole you came from, sluggard. 557 00:34:24,048 --> 00:34:25,348 Sir, you do me wrong. 558 00:34:25,349 --> 00:34:27,116 Three more... On Will! 559 00:34:27,117 --> 00:34:28,351 I don't even know the game. 560 00:34:28,352 --> 00:34:30,086 It's words, you idiot. 561 00:34:30,087 --> 00:34:32,712 Sport for the better sort. 562 00:34:32,766 --> 00:34:34,033 Another two on Will. 563 00:34:34,191 --> 00:34:37,426 Well, lamb, ready for the slaughter? 564 00:34:37,427 --> 00:34:41,798 Or is it "Baa baa baa" all the way home? 565 00:34:44,401 --> 00:34:47,103 Sharpen thy wit, butcher! 566 00:34:49,874 --> 00:34:51,440 Come on! 567 00:34:54,611 --> 00:34:58,328 Verse, iambic pentameter. 568 00:34:58,353 --> 00:35:02,557 The first to falter eats shit! 569 00:35:04,321 --> 00:35:10,559 Lord, save us from these troublesome fellows, 570 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:14,430 country bumbling, rude mechanicals. 571 00:35:14,431 --> 00:35:18,267 Upstart crows, beautified with our feathers, 572 00:35:18,268 --> 00:35:22,605 they flock to London to ape their betters. 573 00:35:22,606 --> 00:35:25,912 They know no classical allusions, 574 00:35:25,937 --> 00:35:29,840 no quotes Ovidian nor Zeno-lluvian. 575 00:35:29,980 --> 00:35:35,684 To wit, their wit is bald-faced counterfeit. 576 00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:38,922 Be it caviar to the commoner, 577 00:35:38,923 --> 00:35:43,626 to those of taste, it is mere fodder! 578 00:35:51,782 --> 00:35:54,620 Three... 579 00:35:54,664 --> 00:35:56,731 two... 580 00:35:57,007 --> 00:35:58,341 one! 581 00:35:58,342 --> 00:35:59,667 Good, Sir. 582 00:35:59,723 --> 00:36:01,124 Why... 583 00:36:02,779 --> 00:36:04,213 Why... 584 00:36:04,214 --> 00:36:06,782 Why is thy wit so dry? 585 00:36:06,783 --> 00:36:09,886 We will quench it if thou does not reply. 586 00:36:10,988 --> 00:36:12,621 Why... 587 00:36:12,622 --> 00:36:13,857 Why... 588 00:36:13,858 --> 00:36:18,995 Why, thy brain is so dull, thy tongue is tied! 589 00:36:18,996 --> 00:36:23,332 So why take offense that this dull brain 590 00:36:23,333 --> 00:36:26,035 doth foolishly wish to entertain? 591 00:36:27,258 --> 00:36:31,295 I make no claim to fame, hold none is disdain. 592 00:36:31,375 --> 00:36:35,506 Why dost thou fear this humble, rustic swain? 593 00:36:35,569 --> 00:36:36,712 Fear thee?! 594 00:36:36,713 --> 00:36:39,248 To demonstrate my superiority... 595 00:36:39,249 --> 00:36:43,352 He'll quote another non... sensicality. 596 00:36:43,353 --> 00:36:45,654 Nonsensicality? Pray, what is that? 597 00:36:45,655 --> 00:36:49,425 The prating nonsense of a tavern rat. 598 00:36:49,426 --> 00:36:52,929 Thy hair is wild, but thy wit is tame. 599 00:36:52,930 --> 00:36:57,433 Lame as an old nag, thou rides it for shame! 600 00:36:57,434 --> 00:37:01,704 Thy wit is so stale, worms would not eat it. 601 00:37:01,705 --> 00:37:06,409 It cannot be spoken, only... Pfft! Excreted! 602 00:37:07,844 --> 00:37:09,345 How dare thee! 603 00:37:09,346 --> 00:37:11,948 Oh, I dare well, for thou are truly dead. 604 00:37:11,949 --> 00:37:15,751 For shame! Thy wit is slain by one so poorly read. 605 00:37:15,906 --> 00:37:20,423 Oh! He ills! Bring a stool so this knave can sit! 606 00:37:20,424 --> 00:37:24,793 "Quilled by common Will" shall be his epithet! 607 00:37:27,264 --> 00:37:29,655 Ahhh! Bah, bah, bah, bah! 608 00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,514 If this upstart has offended, 609 00:37:32,769 --> 00:37:36,218 think on this... I pray all's mended. 610 00:37:36,315 --> 00:37:37,816 Whether fine-feathered... 611 00:37:37,841 --> 00:37:38,808 Ooh! 612 00:37:38,839 --> 00:37:41,673 Or the most common of birds, 613 00:37:41,745 --> 00:37:46,258 to wing our way to Heaven, all we need... 614 00:37:46,762 --> 00:37:48,262 are words. 615 00:37:53,490 --> 00:37:56,926 Thou art a genius, Will Shakespeare! 616 00:37:57,962 --> 00:38:02,131 That boy can swing! Bam, bam! 617 00:38:02,132 --> 00:38:03,732 That's right! 618 00:38:03,733 --> 00:38:06,569 A pox on those poxy playwrights! 619 00:38:06,570 --> 00:38:09,572 A pox on them all! 620 00:38:09,573 --> 00:38:13,409 We've got Willy Wankerspeare! 621 00:38:13,410 --> 00:38:16,679 Willy Wankerspeare and Big Dick Burbage, 622 00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:19,115 the two new cocks of the London stage! 623 00:38:19,116 --> 00:38:21,317 I will bedazzle them all! 624 00:38:21,318 --> 00:38:23,619 The bedazzler! 625 00:38:23,620 --> 00:38:25,688 Oi! People are sleeping! 626 00:38:25,689 --> 00:38:27,090 Not anymore they're not! 627 00:38:27,091 --> 00:38:29,253 Willy Wankspeare will get us arrested! 628 00:38:29,278 --> 00:38:30,636 I care not. 629 00:38:30,731 --> 00:38:34,862 I will write the greatest plays this world has ever seen, 630 00:38:34,965 --> 00:38:37,600 and together, we will achieve greatness! 631 00:38:37,601 --> 00:38:40,469 We will achieve greatness! 632 00:38:40,470 --> 00:38:44,006 It is written in those stars. I see it. 633 00:38:44,114 --> 00:38:45,723 I see it! 634 00:38:46,890 --> 00:38:48,311 I see it! 635 00:38:49,082 --> 00:38:50,412 I see it! 636 00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,516 I see it. I... I see it. 637 00:38:53,517 --> 00:38:56,685 I see it. I see it. I see it. 638 00:38:56,686 --> 00:38:58,121 - Will... - I see it! 639 00:38:58,122 --> 00:39:00,580 Yes. Peace. 640 00:39:00,994 --> 00:39:02,585 Peace. 641 00:39:03,348 --> 00:39:05,016 Peace. 642 00:39:07,984 --> 00:39:09,606 - Peace. - Who goes there?! 643 00:39:09,678 --> 00:39:11,179 The watch! 644 00:39:11,368 --> 00:39:13,591 - Halt! - Halt! 645 00:39:13,714 --> 00:39:14,948 Halt, there! 646 00:39:30,054 --> 00:39:31,220 Shh! 647 00:39:41,581 --> 00:39:42,917 Shh! 648 00:39:44,401 --> 00:39:47,002 Shh! Shh! Shh! 649 00:40:25,709 --> 00:40:28,724 W-Wait. Alice. 650 00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:30,408 I'm married. 651 00:40:32,626 --> 00:40:33,794 What? 652 00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,121 I'm sorry. I'm... I'm... 653 00:40:38,504 --> 00:40:39,905 I'm drunk. I... 654 00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:54,262 Married? 655 00:40:55,526 --> 00:40:56,997 Aye. 656 00:40:58,408 --> 00:40:59,794 Married. 657 00:41:01,856 --> 00:41:05,492 With... three children. 658 00:41:10,420 --> 00:41:11,855 Three? 659 00:41:16,826 --> 00:41:20,429 You must have started young. 660 00:41:21,460 --> 00:41:23,862 18. 661 00:41:33,653 --> 00:41:36,188 So, uh, you're... 662 00:41:36,275 --> 00:41:39,311 you're married. 663 00:41:39,383 --> 00:41:40,984 Yes. 664 00:41:44,836 --> 00:41:47,004 I'm not free. 665 00:41:48,827 --> 00:41:50,528 You're a man. 666 00:41:50,694 --> 00:41:53,197 Don't talk to me about not being free. 667 00:42:14,718 --> 00:42:16,371 Stinking old piss breath! 668 00:42:16,629 --> 00:42:17,887 I'll kill him! 669 00:42:17,972 --> 00:42:20,407 I'll bloody kill him!! 670 00:42:36,673 --> 00:42:39,876 Disrobe, thy dirt-some punk. 671 00:42:41,515 --> 00:42:44,217 Come, commodity. 672 00:42:44,281 --> 00:42:45,930 Show thy worth. 673 00:43:20,864 --> 00:43:23,624 A king's cloak is too fine a bed for me. 674 00:43:26,444 --> 00:43:30,029 Thou art a true knight, Sir Will. 675 00:43:34,564 --> 00:43:36,188 Good night. 676 00:43:36,529 --> 00:43:39,397 Good night, Sir Will. 677 00:43:42,970 --> 00:43:44,638 Good night, Sir Will. 678 00:43:44,741 --> 00:43:46,643 Good night! 679 00:43:48,569 --> 00:43:50,203 Alice. 680 00:43:56,653 --> 00:43:58,822 Don't burn the place down. 681 00:44:02,358 --> 00:44:04,217 She is beautiful. 682 00:44:04,242 --> 00:44:06,243 But you already have a wife. 683 00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:11,915 This will lead to damnation. 684 00:44:13,837 --> 00:44:15,928 I do this for my family. 685 00:44:16,673 --> 00:44:18,248 For yourself. 686 00:44:19,809 --> 00:44:22,865 God gives us rules, not choices. 687 00:44:23,713 --> 00:44:25,973 Is it such a sin to want to be who I am? 688 00:44:26,550 --> 00:44:28,317 You are the son of a glover. 689 00:44:28,318 --> 00:44:29,818 Go home and live by your commandments. 690 00:44:29,819 --> 00:44:32,655 God have mercy on their souls. 691 00:44:32,656 --> 00:44:36,559 Hell is real. And eternal. 692 00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:39,462 Remember thy true faith, Will. 693 00:44:39,463 --> 00:44:43,399 Better to die righteous than to burn for fear. 694 00:44:43,586 --> 00:44:45,677 The traitor carrying this letter 695 00:44:45,702 --> 00:44:47,403 was from one of the theatres. 696 00:44:47,404 --> 00:44:48,837 It surpriseth me not. 697 00:44:48,838 --> 00:44:53,743 Those places are full drunkards, degenerates, whores, and spies. 698 00:44:54,757 --> 00:44:57,459 I find it so hard to fit in. 699 00:44:57,765 --> 00:45:00,937 Whoever carried this letter can lead me to Southwell. 700 00:45:01,351 --> 00:45:04,387 Then they are a valuable prize. 701 00:45:04,645 --> 00:45:07,856 Find him, and you'll be paid well. 702 00:45:07,857 --> 00:45:11,121 Search the theatres for a writer 703 00:45:11,699 --> 00:45:14,559 with a gash on his hand. 704 00:45:16,571 --> 00:45:20,774 "Tamburlaine the Ghost" by Christopher Marlowe! 705 00:45:22,143 --> 00:45:24,544 Burbage! Where is that liar? 706 00:45:24,569 --> 00:45:26,839 Burbage! Burbage! 707 00:45:29,780 --> 00:45:32,115 You said it was my play. 708 00:45:32,116 --> 00:45:36,111 Well... I did pay for a Marlowe play. 709 00:45:36,151 --> 00:45:39,086 But I didn't write you one. 710 00:45:39,486 --> 00:45:40,924 After the performance, 711 00:45:40,925 --> 00:45:45,428 you can say it was written by a disciple of yours, huh? 712 00:45:45,429 --> 00:45:47,711 I could sue you, you know. 713 00:45:48,365 --> 00:45:51,391 First, I want to meet this... "disciple." 714 00:45:51,465 --> 00:45:52,599 Hm. 715 00:45:52,772 --> 00:45:54,940 Very well. 716 00:45:59,810 --> 00:46:02,279 Stop that! I'm practicing! 717 00:46:05,658 --> 00:46:07,458 You two look busy. 718 00:46:07,597 --> 00:46:10,095 - Your pretty gown will get ruined! - Good. 719 00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:12,454 I-I can't read this. 720 00:46:13,152 --> 00:46:14,252 Uhh... "The death." 721 00:46:14,277 --> 00:46:15,358 Ahhhh! 722 00:46:15,359 --> 00:46:16,960 - Look, if I... - Will, what do you think of my teeth? 723 00:46:16,961 --> 00:46:18,161 Yes. Very scary. 724 00:46:18,162 --> 00:46:19,628 What am I holding the mirror up to? 725 00:46:19,629 --> 00:46:22,803 You poxy, pigeon-livered, sodding cocksuckers! 726 00:46:22,828 --> 00:46:24,935 - Now, that's funny, boy. - Will! 727 00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:26,235 That's funny. What am I holding a mirror up to? 728 00:46:26,236 --> 00:46:27,636 Nature. Will! 729 00:46:27,637 --> 00:46:29,472 - Nature? - Will! 730 00:46:29,473 --> 00:46:32,977 Oh. Come and meet Christopher Marlowe. 731 00:46:37,314 --> 00:46:39,648 Will. Uh, William. 732 00:46:40,264 --> 00:46:41,905 Shakespeare. 733 00:46:41,992 --> 00:46:43,279 An honor. 734 00:46:44,421 --> 00:46:46,819 Seems your play is quite the thing. 735 00:46:47,391 --> 00:46:51,239 Very poor thing, compared to your... great works. 736 00:46:51,905 --> 00:46:53,339 Indeed. 737 00:46:59,870 --> 00:47:02,238 What happened to your hand? 738 00:47:03,116 --> 00:47:05,318 I, uh... slipped. 739 00:47:08,043 --> 00:47:10,004 How long have you been in London? 740 00:47:10,099 --> 00:47:11,400 Not long. 741 00:47:13,023 --> 00:47:14,190 No. 742 00:47:15,838 --> 00:47:17,840 No, not long at all. 743 00:47:20,101 --> 00:47:24,311 And welcome, Monsieur Shakeshaft. 744 00:47:26,710 --> 00:47:29,646 I predict your stay will be profitable. 745 00:47:36,875 --> 00:47:42,746 "Tamburlaine the Ghost" by Christopher Marlowe! 746 00:47:47,184 --> 00:47:48,818 Psst! You... come here. 747 00:47:48,843 --> 00:47:50,244 Yes, you. Come on. 748 00:47:52,422 --> 00:47:54,392 Go to the house of Richard Topcliffe. 749 00:47:54,431 --> 00:47:56,092 - Whose house? - Richard Topcliffe. 750 00:47:56,093 --> 00:47:58,294 Tell him Marlowe has what he seeks. You understand? 751 00:47:58,295 --> 00:47:59,455 What he seeks. 752 00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:00,915 Aye, Sir. 753 00:48:02,227 --> 00:48:03,428 Off you go. 754 00:48:20,379 --> 00:48:21,924 - Master Kemp, Sir. - What? What?! 755 00:48:21,949 --> 00:48:23,319 In this scene, the line where you... 756 00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:24,520 The line?! 757 00:48:24,521 --> 00:48:26,214 Shut your gob, sonny. 758 00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:28,373 Watch a star shine. 759 00:48:39,670 --> 00:48:41,871 Dislodge! Dislodge! 760 00:48:41,872 --> 00:48:44,140 It is the King of England! 761 00:48:44,141 --> 00:48:46,009 The King of England! 762 00:48:47,878 --> 00:48:50,646 The King of England! 763 00:48:50,647 --> 00:48:52,015 Aaaah! 764 00:48:57,487 --> 00:48:58,822 Saddle my bonny black! 765 00:48:58,823 --> 00:49:00,925 Haaa! 766 00:49:19,844 --> 00:49:21,911 Message for Mr. Topcliffe. 767 00:49:21,912 --> 00:49:25,614 I would have their lives choked up, my sovereign. 768 00:49:25,615 --> 00:49:28,251 Whose lives, m'lady? 769 00:49:28,252 --> 00:49:31,354 Your wedded queen... My liege. 770 00:49:31,355 --> 00:49:32,621 And Salisbury... 771 00:49:32,622 --> 00:49:33,857 What am I holding... 772 00:49:33,858 --> 00:49:36,126 It's holding a mirror up to nature. 773 00:49:37,294 --> 00:49:40,096 That we cannot bestow but by their death. 774 00:49:41,431 --> 00:49:43,456 Thy opposition is beyond our law! 775 00:49:43,481 --> 00:49:46,951 So is your... desire. 776 00:49:51,141 --> 00:49:54,310 Yeah! Tell the old lech! 777 00:49:58,854 --> 00:50:00,862 A message from Mr. Marlowe, Sir. 778 00:50:00,919 --> 00:50:02,167 Where is he? 779 00:50:02,255 --> 00:50:03,655 The theatre. 780 00:50:09,924 --> 00:50:15,131 A flight of ugly ravens do croak and hover 781 00:50:15,132 --> 00:50:17,834 o'er our soldiers' heads! 782 00:50:17,835 --> 00:50:20,479 Fly! Fly! 783 00:50:20,541 --> 00:50:24,044 There is no hope but death! 784 00:50:24,241 --> 00:50:26,429 ♪ La morte ♪ 785 00:50:26,541 --> 00:50:32,045 ♪ La mooooooooooooorte ♪ 786 00:50:33,851 --> 00:50:36,786 This first fruit of my sword. 787 00:50:36,787 --> 00:50:41,257 Cropped and cut down even at the gate of death! 788 00:50:41,258 --> 00:50:43,592 Down with the French faggots! 789 00:50:43,593 --> 00:50:45,862 "Gate of death" is my line. All the good bits are mine. 790 00:50:45,863 --> 00:50:47,263 You couldn't write this well 791 00:50:47,264 --> 00:50:49,765 if I shoved a hot poker up your arse, hm? 792 00:50:49,766 --> 00:50:53,176 The King of Boheme, Father, whom I slew, 793 00:50:53,201 --> 00:50:54,259 whose thousands... 794 00:50:54,284 --> 00:50:56,886 That boy can't act for shite! 795 00:50:56,934 --> 00:50:59,269 And lay as thick upon my battered crest... 796 00:50:59,325 --> 00:51:01,559 "The Carpenter's" at it again. 797 00:51:01,678 --> 00:51:03,512 Well, at least the audience are with us. 798 00:51:03,513 --> 00:51:05,614 The entire play hangs on the final speech. 799 00:51:05,973 --> 00:51:07,783 If Richard doesn't stop shouting, we're ruined. 800 00:51:07,784 --> 00:51:09,285 Often blows, 801 00:51:09,286 --> 00:51:11,154 like the continual laboring of a woodman's axe... 802 00:51:11,155 --> 00:51:12,521 What's he yelling about now? 803 00:51:12,522 --> 00:51:14,623 That is enjoining to fell a load of oaks 804 00:51:14,624 --> 00:51:17,793 began to faulter, straight I would record 805 00:51:17,949 --> 00:51:21,664 my gifts you gave me and my zealous vow 806 00:51:21,964 --> 00:51:26,135 that, in despite, I carved my passage forth! 807 00:51:31,909 --> 00:51:35,711 So, John of France! 808 00:51:35,712 --> 00:51:38,404 - I see you keep your word! - Give me a sword. 809 00:51:38,429 --> 00:51:41,975 But had you done at first, as now you do, 810 00:51:42,319 --> 00:51:44,153 how many civil towns... 811 00:51:44,216 --> 00:51:45,651 A mirror! 812 00:51:56,166 --> 00:51:58,602 What mean you... soldier? 813 00:52:04,841 --> 00:52:06,110 Speak! 814 00:52:08,745 --> 00:52:11,051 Hold up a mirror... 815 00:52:11,581 --> 00:52:12,934 my prince... 816 00:52:14,005 --> 00:52:15,090 wherein... 817 00:52:15,385 --> 00:52:21,391 this French villain may see his own foul nature. 818 00:52:31,068 --> 00:52:32,465 Nature? 819 00:52:33,403 --> 00:52:35,067 Hold up a mirror? 820 00:52:35,772 --> 00:52:39,076 His... nature? 821 00:52:42,647 --> 00:52:44,448 Mirror... 822 00:52:44,614 --> 00:52:48,350 To his... nature. 823 00:52:53,657 --> 00:52:54,858 Mirror... 824 00:52:58,470 --> 00:53:00,339 A mirror. 825 00:53:06,481 --> 00:53:09,739 John, see what a scourge has laid upon your land? 826 00:53:13,110 --> 00:53:16,095 Had you done at first as now you do, 827 00:53:17,181 --> 00:53:20,587 how many civil towns had stood untouched 828 00:53:21,461 --> 00:53:24,298 that now are turned to ragged heaps of stones? 829 00:53:26,165 --> 00:53:29,860 How people's lives might'st thou have saved 830 00:53:31,126 --> 00:53:33,845 that are untimely sunk into their graves? 831 00:53:35,048 --> 00:53:37,596 Yeah. War. 832 00:53:37,968 --> 00:53:39,602 Nothing but a waste, innit? 833 00:53:39,603 --> 00:53:43,772 God willing, then, to England we'll be shipped. 834 00:53:44,057 --> 00:53:47,705 Where in a happy hour, I trust we shall arrive. 835 00:53:49,113 --> 00:53:54,450 Three kings, two princes, and a queen! 836 00:54:28,718 --> 00:54:30,686 Hush! 837 00:54:30,687 --> 00:54:31,887 Thank you! 838 00:54:31,888 --> 00:54:34,190 Thank you, gentles, all! 839 00:54:34,191 --> 00:54:35,924 But, uh, I must inform you 840 00:54:35,925 --> 00:54:38,365 that this trifle was not written by myself, 841 00:54:39,045 --> 00:54:41,997 but a young upstart... A mere pup! 842 00:54:41,998 --> 00:54:44,333 Please give your hand to the whelp... 843 00:54:44,334 --> 00:54:47,236 Master Will Shakeshaft! 844 00:55:10,460 --> 00:55:12,361 You said you were going to pull me onstage. 845 00:55:12,362 --> 00:55:13,629 I wrote it with him! 846 00:55:13,630 --> 00:55:16,933 I have a far greater role for you to play. 847 00:55:21,105 --> 00:55:22,305 I told you he was special. 848 00:55:22,306 --> 00:55:23,406 We'll see. 849 00:55:33,150 --> 00:55:34,951 Give me your hand. 850 00:55:36,786 --> 00:55:38,488 Go gather the props. 851 00:55:49,409 --> 00:55:51,077 Christ! 852 00:55:51,235 --> 00:55:52,668 What have you done?! 853 00:55:52,669 --> 00:55:55,034 We all must suffer for greatness one way or another. 854 00:55:55,060 --> 00:55:56,360 Degenerate lunatic! 855 00:55:56,470 --> 00:55:58,638 Shh. Here. Let me bandage it for you. 856 00:55:58,742 --> 00:55:59,775 I'll kill you! 857 00:56:03,247 --> 00:56:04,347 No! 858 00:56:04,804 --> 00:56:06,115 He struggled, and the wound opened. 859 00:56:06,116 --> 00:56:08,304 - Get him out of here. - No, no, no, no! 860 00:56:08,384 --> 00:56:11,726 No! I've done nothing! 861 00:56:11,837 --> 00:56:13,705 No! No, no! 862 00:56:13,878 --> 00:56:15,712 No! He's a lunatic! 863 00:56:15,792 --> 00:56:17,141 No! 864 00:56:17,261 --> 00:56:19,462 You've got the wrong man! 865 00:56:28,104 --> 00:56:31,791 You owe me your life, Master Shakespeare. 866 00:56:32,514 --> 00:56:36,822 Then, the debt is small, for I am but born this moment. 867 00:56:37,210 --> 00:56:39,283 A debt, nonetheless. 868 00:56:39,949 --> 00:56:41,094 A debt. 869 00:57:18,969 --> 00:57:23,969 - Sync and corrections by Zac - - www.addic7ed.com - 869 00:57:24,305 --> 00:57:30,356 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.SubtitleDB.org