William Shakespeare's Jedi the Last: Star Wars Part the Eighth (William Shakespeare's Star Wars)
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William Shakespeare's Jedi the Last: Star Wars Part the Eighth (William Shakespeare's Star Wars)

Hardcover – Illustrated, July 10, 2018

Price
$14.95
Format
Hardcover
Pages
176
Publisher
Quirk Books
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1683690870
Dimensions
5.56 x 0.71 x 8.27 inches
Weight
9.6 ounces

Description

Praise for the William Shakespeare’s Star Wars® Series: “Reverent, clever and a novel way for fans to re-immerse themselves in their beloved franchise.”— New York Times , on the series“A quirky addition to the genre-busting canon.”— Entertainment Weekly , on William Shakespeare’s Star Wars “A great gift for every geek you know, no matter what their passion.”— Huffington Post , on William Shakespeare’s Star Wars “Enormous fun.”— A.V. Club , on William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back “The writing’s quite good; elaborate Elizabethan woodcuts. . .are just icing on the cake.”— The Wall Street Journal , on William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of the Sith’s Revenge “At last, the mother of all mashups is upon us.”— CNET.com , on William Shakespeare’s Star Wars “With movie Easter eggs aplenty, Bard babes and Star Wars lovers will be equally enthused.”— Brit + Co , on William Shakespeare’s The Force Doth Awaken “Each page proves that the English language is a playground, and Ian Doescher uses every opportunity to the fullest.”— Sweety High , on William Shakespeare’s Jedi the Last “The book is so brilliant you’ll wonder why someone didn’t think of it sooner.”— Paste Magazine , on William Shakespeare’s Star Wars “As Shakespeare would say, you might think, this be madness, yet there is a method in ’t.”— Newsday , on William Shakespeare’s Star Wars Ian Doescher is the New York Times best-sellingxa0author of the William Shakespeare’s Star Wars®xa0series, the Pop Shakespeare series, and MacTrump .xa0He has written for Marvel Comics and is a contributingxa0author to the story collection Star Wars:xa0From a Certain Point of View. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with hisxa0family. Visit him at IanDoescher.com.

Features & Highlights

  • Experience the
  • Star Wars
  • saga reimagined as an Elizabethan drama penned by William Shakespeare himself, complete with authentic meter and verse, and theatrical monologues and dialog by everyone from Luke Skywalker to Rose Tico.
  • The
  • Star Wars
  • saga continues, with Bard of Avon providing some of the biggest shocks yet! Alack, the valiant Resistance must flee from the scoundrels of the First Order, and it falls to Rey, Finn, Poe, Rose, and BB-8 to take up arms against a sea of troubles. Can they bring Snoke’s schemes to woe, destruction, ruin, and decay? Will Luke Skywalker take the stage once more, and aid General Leia in the winter of her discontent?Authentic meter, stage directions, reimagined movie scenes and dialogue, and hidden Easter eggs throughout 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.

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Doescher Makes the Best of a Horrible Film

The fallout from the First Order’s destruction of the New Republic’s capital and the Resistance’s destruction of her enemy’s superweapon even as they look to bring Luke Skywalker back in William Shakespeare’s Jedi the Last by Ian Doescher. Beginning almost immediately after the previous film, the middle installment of the sequel trilogy finds the First Order looking to takeout the remnant of their opponents only this adaptation is not on screen or a book but on the stage in Elizabethan prose as Shakespeare would have written.

Adapting The Last Jedi was definitely the hardest Star Wars film that Doescher had to deal with because of the how awful the Rian Johnson written-direction film is. There is only so much Doescher could do to make this adaptation to make it readable, unlike The Phantom of Menace in which he only had to develop Jar Jar Binks. He had to salvage so many poorly written characters, including those long established like Leia and Luke as those newly introduced, that to even have this published in a timely manner meant he could only polish them so much. Since this is a review of the adaptation and not the film, I will applaud the excellent work Doescher did in making the at times bad dialogue into some more passable, the continuation of footnoting translations of Chewbecca’s few lines, and great narratives for the fight scenes. However I must also commend Doescher for the wonderful easter eggs in reference to James Bond, Rogue One, and yes the sly acknowledgements that Johnson underdeveloped or ruined so many characters in particular Rey.

Jedi the Last is the most controversial film of the franchise and Ian Doescher did the best job he could in making it into a passable stage play in the style of William Shakespeare. As a result my rating is celebration of Doescher’s hard work and like the rest of the Star Wars fandom we look for to what he must deal with in Episode IX.
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Why would you waste time reading reviews when you could be reading this!

Ian always satisfies with his adaptations of Star Wars. It’s a ton of fun noticing the when he takes lines directly from Shakespeare and seamlessly integrates them into the scene.
Even if you’ve never read Shakespeare, these books are still awesome. A true Star Wars fan will relish the depth that is added to each character when they are rewritten into the pentatonic scale.
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Great book

I love these books. I have all of them. They're funny, and I'm a Shakespeare fan, so I'm so glad I found these.

Even my husband, who is decidedly NOT a Shakespeare fan, finds them funny. And I love all the little cultural references and easter eggs in all the books.

The quality is great, too. It's a well-made hardcover.
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Love I must, bought I did

I have the whole series. I just love them. The perfect gift for every Star Wars and Shakespeare’s fan!!
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Great idea, so well done!

These books are super funny and well done. Love hearing our kiddo reading the books out loud!
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Good read, especially if you saw the films

These are fun and relatively easy to read. Some things gona little wilde with the speech, but still fun
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You must buy

I have the first six, I HAD to get this one as well.
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Great

Boy, this author is talented! I’ve purchased all he’s written from the Star Wars saga. I find he is able to combine satire, humor and accurate story line to the voice of Shakespeare
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Awesome! Will be buying whole series

Came quick, i love Shakespeare renditions, i have yet to read it but skimmed through and its awesome!
I have 3 so far in the series and will be buying all eventually.
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BETTER THAN THE MOVIE

For one of the most controversial movies in the Star Wars franchise, this adaptation redeems the sequel trilogy where the movie lacks. The heightened focus on Kylo Ren's struggle between good and evil, and the deeper emotion of Rose (Star Wars fan's newest least-favorite character) shines far better with the Bard than on the silver screen. Luke's role is also improved... but you read and see for yourself!