William Shakespeare's The Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh (William Shakespeare's Star Wars)
Hardcover – October 3, 2017
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-selling author of William Shakespeare's Star Wars® and the Pop Shakespeare series. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his family. 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 dialogue by everyone from Rey to Chewbacca.
- As the noble Resistance clashes with the vile First Order, Rey, Finn, Poe Dameron, Kylo Ren, and BB-8 are pulled into a galaxy-wide drama. The romance of Han Solo and Leia Organa takes a tragic turn that Shakespeare would approve of. 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.
