Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Chapter Eighty-Nine: William Shakespeare's Star Wars

What fun fun fun fun books!  William Shakespeare's Star Wars (three volumes--Verily, a New Hope, The Empire Striketh Back, and The Jedi Doth Return) by Ian Doescher are astoundingly well-written.  As the titles imply, these books are the story of Star Wars told in the style of Shakespeare's plays, and Doescher does a great job both at staying faithful to Lucas's movies and at reproducing Shakespeare's style without mocking Shakespeare.  If you love Star Wars, you should definitely read these plays--it won't take long--and if you have been living under a rock and haven't seen Star Wars, you should see the movies (A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and The Return of the Jedi) and then read Doescher's Shakespearean version because it is a bucketful of fun!  If reading the line "Thou art a feisty little droid" (The Jedi Doth Return Act I, Scene 2, line 135) doesn't qualify as fun, what does?

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