Upstart Crow (TV Series)

Food of Love (2017)

Steve Speirs: Burbage

Quotes 

• Burbage : Let me think this through, Will. Are you suggesting that we find somebody to write songs to fit your plays?

  Will Shakespeare : Well, I thought that at first. You know, work with a composer on an original score. But then I thought, no, we need guaranteed hits. Lots of them. And how do we get those?

  Burbage : By using songs that are hits already!

  Will Shakespeare : Yes! By St. Bernard's buttered barn-cakes, yes! I'm on fire today. First I invent the original stage musical and then instantly make it obsolete by inventing the greatest hits musical!

• Will Shakespeare : Well, we could just do the play straight with lengthy monologues instead of songs.

  Burbage : I suppose we have no choice. But what would you call it?

  Will Shakespeare : A Comedy of Mistakes, Misunderstandings and Coincidences.

  Burbage : Basically, it's just a comedy of errors.

  Will Shakespeare : Errors. Oh, I like that. That's good. I'll use that. A Comedy of Mistakes, Misunderstandings, Coincidences and Errors. Brilliant.