Summary:
The Doctor has promised Martha one trip in the Tardis and so he takes her back in time to London during the Elizabethan time. Martha can't believe that she's really in the past and that she's able to see one of William Shakespeare's plays in the Globe Theatre. Soon she is able to meet him in person but he's quite different than she imagined him to be. When people around Shakespeare start to die, the Doctor wonders if this has something to do with an alien threat. They encounter creatures that look like witches who are able to influence Shakespeare, so he writes a different ending to his play than intended. When the actors come to the end of his play the gate to a different dimension starts to open. Can the Doctor close this gate with the help of William Shakespeare?
The fact that the Doctor is a time traveller and that the writers include so many historic characters is quite cool and a thing I really like in this series. I think Shakespeare is brilliantly played here and the aliens that look like witches fit the setting perfectly. When I first saw this episode, I didn't know that they actually filmed in the real Globe Theatre, which is amazing when you think about it. Martha starts to realize how it is when you travel with the Doctor and that he has other motives to take her along than she thought. She's a bit flattered when Shakespeare flirts with her but knows that she isn't the right person for him. I think it's brilliant that a bit of Harry Potter is included into this episode and that they are able to defeat the aliens when Shakespeare shouts "Expelliarmus". That's a nice little storyline inside the episode, which is definitely worth watching.
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