Binary Archetype in Ben Elton’s Novel “Two Brothers” by V. G. Novikova

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The God-Haunted Atheist and the Posh Boy: Christopher Marlowe in Will and Upstart Crow by Michael D Friedman

“…During the mid-2010s, there appeared a pair of television shows featuring William Shakespeare in the title role, with Christopher Marlowe as a central supporting figure: Craig Pearce’s TNT drama Will and Ben Elton’s BBC comedy Upstart Crow. Pearce’s depiction of Marlowe as a brilliant but tortured, blaspheming homosexual corresponds very closely with what Lucas Erne calls the “mythographic image” of the playwright cultivated by Marlowe scholars and biographers. …”
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Comedy and Plague in the Time of Covid: The BBC's Upstart Crow: Lockdown Christmas 1603 by William Green

“…The BBC’s Upstart Crow, created and scripted by Ben Elton, is a British situation comedy loosely based on the life and career of the early modern dramatist William Shakespeare (1564-1616). …”
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“Subject to Invent”: Adaptations of Shakespeare’s Sonnets into other Media by Hickman Alan Forrest

“…Whereas the plays have long been acknowledged as a rich source of inspiration—both serious and parodic—by artists and auteurs, ranging in kind from novelist James Joyce to dramatist Tom Stoppard to comedian Ben Elton, the poems have received less scrutiny in this regard. …”
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