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.
Reimagined in glorious iambic pentameter—and complete with twenty gorgeous Elizabethan illustrations–William Shakespeare’s Star Wars will astound and edify Rebels and Imperials alike. Zounds! This is the book you’re looking for.
Only for the hard core Star Wars geek William Shakespeare’s Star Wars is the gift for the Star Wars geek in your life. It serves no other purpose. It is the script for the original Star wars movie- “A New Hope” as if written by Shakespeare in iambic pentameter.To be fair it follows the plot exactly-though of Lucas re-released version form the 1990’s with scenes with Jabba the Hutt added in. The fact I can recognize that probably says something about me but let’s not go there.On the downside the text relies…
Worth a read, but gets repititious Coincidentally I just finished reading , which used actual text from the Bard. After having a dose of Shakespear and learning to memorize his works, when I got my hands on this I had one immediate response. . .Ha. Ha. Ha!I got a good laugh, as the timely classic story we all know so well is put into the form of a stage play with a lot of Thee’s, Thou’s and the…
Brilliant This is just a brilliant adaptation of Star Wars into the style of Shakespeare. Those two things are so different that my first reaction was “This is some kind of joke, right?” But while there’s a great deal of humor to be found here, the project is not a parody. Not at all. It’s a celebration of two hitherto separate but equally great triumphs of storytelling.The first step was converting the dialogue of A New Hope into iambic pentameter. This is a great accomplishment in its…