William Shakespeare is a minor character in the Prime Video series Good Omens. He appears in the episode "Hard Times".
Background[]
He is famous for writing "Romeo and Juliet" and other plays.
In the flashback, Aziraphale and Crowley met up at the Globe Theatre in London in 1601. Shakespeare's "Hamlet" was being performed on stage in an unusually empty theatre. Frustrated by this, Shakespeare said that only a miracle could make people watch Hamlet. Crowley agreed to perform a miracle for Aziraphale to make Hamlet a success.
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- David Tennant, Crowley, is known for acting in "Hamlet", which is the play performed in the 1601 flashback. In 2008, Tennant played the title role in the Courtyard Theatre. In 2009, he played the title role in the television film adaptation.[1][2]
- Michael Sheen, Aziraphale, too, had played the title role in "Hamlet" in 2011-2012 at the Young Vic.[3]
- Shakespeare is seen to get inspired by Crowely's sentence "Age does not wither, nor custom stale in his infinite variety", which is a famous quote from Shakespeare's play "Antony and Cleopatra" in 1607.