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We consider the motion and the linear hydrodynamic instabilities of two immiscible viscoelastic liquids above a horizontal solid surface induced by the periodic oscillations of the horizontal plate along its plane. A planar interface, parallel to the oscillating plate, separates the lower layer from the other viscoelastic fluid that extends vertically to infinity. The two-dimensional motion of these fluids is studied together with the conditions under which the flow becomes unstable, deforming the planar interface and promoting the mixing of both liquids. The study extends the previous work by Isakova et al. [“A model for the linear stability of the interface between aqueous humor and vitreous substitutes after vitreoretinal surgery,” Phys. Fluids 26, 124101 (2014)] by considering non-Newtonian fluids, particularly liquids with weak viscoelasticity (neglecting normal stress differences), which may model more accurately the physical behavior of the aqueous humor and, especially, the vitreous humour substit...