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Gareth Roberts interview - Radio Times, April 2007 |
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Nick Griffiths talks to the man who penned The Shakespeare Code.
"[Gareth] Roberts didn't have [Dean Lennox] Kelly in mind
when scripting the character [of Shakespeare].
"It's very unlikely casting but he's
absolutely perfect, in a strange,
strange way," he says. "Actually, I had
Christopher Eccleston [Tennant's
predecessor as the Doctor] in mind.
Which would have been mad."
And handily, no-one knows much
about Shakespeare's character - only
his characters. "There are very few
references, and trying to extrapolate
from them could lead you down all
sorts of weird alleys," says Roberts.
"So what we thought was fun was
to make him a kind of celebrity."
Roberts - who has written for
Swinging, Emmerdale and Brookside,
as well as a number of Doctor Who
novels - not only had to write
Shakespeare's dialogue but also lines
for a "new" play, Love's Labour's
Won (which some believe did once
exist as a sequel to Love's Labour's
Lost). "It was daunting," he
concurs. "But you just have to get
on with it. And we only see tiny
bits of it in the episode, so I didn't
worry too much about the blank
verse and writing timeless iambic
pentameter."
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