This blog started out as Michael Doherty's Personal Library, containing reviews of books that normally don't get reviewed: basically adult and cult books. It was all just a bit of fun, you understand. But when I embarked on a three-year Shakespeare study, Shakespeare basically took over, which is a good thing.
Friday, May 10, 2019
Shakespeare Reference in Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor
I walked to my local gaming store the other day to buy
more dice (I always want more dice), and as it was Free Comic Book Day, I
picked up a comic book too. It is issue 00 of Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor, and it contains a Shakespeare
reference. The Doctor says “Something wicked this way comes.” Her next line is “Ray
Bradbury, lovely man.” That seems to imply that the Doctor believes the line
originated with Ray Bradbury. It did not. The line “Something wicked this way
comes” is from Act IV Scene i of Macbeth:
“By the pricking of my thumbs,/Something wicked this way comes.”
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