Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators This Promised End (2018– ) Online
- Original Title :
- This Promised End
- Genre :
- TV Episode / Comedy / Drama / Mystery
- Year :
- 2018–
- Directror :
- Carolina Giammetta
- Cast :
- Mark Benton,Jo Joyner,Patrick Walshe McBride
- Writer :
- Paul Matthew Thompson,Jude Tindall
- Type :
- TV Episode
- Time :
- 45min
- Rating :
- 7.6/10
Undertaker Peter Quintus is visited by two sinister hitmen, who say they will kill him in twenty-four hours so he seeks help from Luella and Frank. Peter's ex-wife, the voracious Brenda, claims that he owes her a lot of money and then current wife Anne is attacked. Somebody clearly bears him a grudge and the detectives must find them before the deadline runs out.
Episode complete credited cast: | |||
Mark Benton | - | Frank Hathaway | |
Jo Joyner | - | Luella Shakespeare | |
Patrick Walshe McBride | - | Sebastian Brudenell (as Patrick Walshe Mcbride) | |
Amber Aga | - | DI Marlowe | |
Richard Lumsden | - | Peter Quintus | |
Vicky Hall | - | Anne Quintus | |
Chris Brazier | - | Mr R | |
Jason Nwoga | - | Mr G | |
Andrew Buckley | - | Melvin Pipkin | |
Elizabeth Berrington | - | Brenda Quintus |
Lots of visual and other references to Shakespeare's plays, especially Hamlet, pepper this story. Two of the village names, Elsinore (Hamlet's castle) and Osric (a courtier), come from 'Hamlet'. A gravedigger plays with a skull (Yorick's). The funeral parlour sign reads "This Mortal Coil". When Messrs R and G wake Quintus in the church, their lines, "Is this the promised end? / Or image of that horror?", are from 'King Lear' Act 5, Scene 3. 'Quintus' is a character in Shakespeare's 'Titus and Andronicus'. Sebastian's quote at the end, "O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side!", comes from Measure for Measure, Act 3, Scene 2.
Mr. R and Mr G., the sinister men, are a reference to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern from 'Hamlet'.
The title comes from Kent's lines in 'King Lear' Act 5, Scene 3, "KENT: Is this the promised end?".
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