Into The Time Vortex Podcast - Episode 25: Doctor Who - The Shakespeare Code

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: The Shakespeare Code

Doctor Who: 

The Shakespeare Code 

By Gareth Roberts

“That's it. They used you. They gave you the final words like a spell, like a code. Love's Labor’s Won. It's a weapon. The right combination of words, spoken at the right place, with the shape of the Globe as an energy converter! The play's the thing! And yes, you can have that.”

The Doctor takes Martha to 1599 London where they go to the Globe Theatre to see a play by William Shakespeare.   There are others interested by Shakespeare also and want to use his genius with words to open a portal from their dimension to ours.  The way they plan on doing it is with the play Love’s Labor’s Won which is the lost play by William Shakespeare.

The Doctor and Martha do some snooping around and discover that the ones behind all this are the Cartonites.  A race that manipulates words to make things happen which looks like magic when they do it.  The Doctor and needs the help of Shakespeare to stop the Carronites by postponing his newest play which debuts tonight and it might already be too late to stop the invasion.  Unless of course The Doctor can think up of a way to stopping it using the words of Shakespeare as a weapon.