Original sentence: The Bard was previously glimpsed by the Doctor and his companions on the screen of their Time-Space Visualiser in The Chase; in Planet of Evil, the Fourth Doctor mentioned having met Shakespeare before; and in City of Death he claimed that he helped transcribe the original manuscript for Hamlet — suggesting that he met and again befriended an older Shakespeare in his earlier incarnation
Edited sentence: The Bard was previously glimpsed by the Doctor and his companions on the screen of their Time-Space Visualiser in The Chase; in Planet of Evil, the Fourth Doctor mentioned having met Shakespeare before; and in City of Death he claimed that he helped transcribe the original manuscript for Hamlet — suggesting that he met and again befriended an older Shakespeare in his earlier incarnation, although he acts here as though he is meeting Shakespeare for the first time