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William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, a New Hope (William Shakespeare's Star Wars #4 )
William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, a New Hope (William Shakespeare's Star Wars #4 )
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Author: Ian Doescher Publisher: Quirk Books Series: William Shakespeare's Star Wars Format: Hardcover # of Pages: 174 Pub. Date: 2013 ISBN-10: 1594746370 ISBN-13: 9781594746376
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About
the Book:
May the verse be with you!
Experience the Star Wars saga rescripted as an Elizabethan
drama penned by William Shakespeare himself, complete with
authentic meter and verse, and theatrical monologues and dialog by
everyone from Darth Vader to R2D2.
Return once more to a galaxy far, far away with this sublime
retelling of George Lucas's epic Star Wars in the style of the
immortal Bard of Avon. The saga of a wise (Jedi) knight and an evil
(Sith) lord, of a beautiful princess held captive and a young hero
coming of age, Star Wars abounds with all the valor and villainy of
Shakespeare's greatest plays. 'Tis a tale told by fretful droids,
full of faithful Wookiees and fearstome stormtroopers, signifying...
pretty much everything.
Authentic meter, stage directions, rescripted movie scenes and
dialogue, and hidden Easter eggs throughout William Shakespeare's Star Wars will entertain and
impress fans of Star Wars and Shakespeare alike. Every scene
and character from the film appears in the play, along with twenty
woodcut-style illustrations that depict an Elizabethan version of the
Star Wars galaxy. Zounds! This is the book you're looking for.
Inspired by one of the greatest creative minds in the English
language – and William Shakespeare – here is a sublime
retelling of George Lucas's epic Star Wars in the style of the
immortal Bard of Avon.
What people say:
"...a quirky addition to the
genre-busting canon...." — Entertainment Weekly
"As
Shakespeare would say, you might think, this be madness, yet there is
a method in 't." —
Newsday
"Doescher's
pseudo-Shakespearean language is absolutely dead-on; this is one of
the best-written Shakespeare parodies created for this audience and
it is absolutely laugh-out-loud funny for those familiar with both
The Bard and Star Wars. It is most likely to be
appreciated by snarky AP English students and drama club members, but
an imaginative English teacher could find ways to use it in the
classroom to engage reluctant readers of Shakespeare." —
School Library Journal
"At
last, the mother of all mashups is upon us."
— CNET.com
"For anglophiles, sci-fi
nerds, and probably 9th grade English students." — The
Bookreporter
About the Author:
Ian Doescher is an American fiction writer known for his
William Shakespeare Star Wars series and the Pop Shakespeare series.
He has loved Shakespeare since eighth grade and was born 45 days
after Star Wars Episode IV was released. An ordained pastor in the
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), he has a B.A. in Music from Yale
University, a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, and a
Ph.D. in Ethics from Union Theological Seminary. He is currently a
Senior Copywriter at CareOregon, a nonprofit health care provider in
Portland.
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