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William Shakespeare's Star Wars
''William Shakespeare's Star Wars'' is a series of plays by Ian Doescher that parody the style of William Shakespeare, with nine instalments adapting the films of the Skywalker Saga. The plays are written as Elizabethan tragedies, mixing blank verse poetry and stage scripts with Early Modern English stock characters and orthography. Sometimes Shakespeare is quoted, or rather, rewritten, like the following in ''William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope'': “ uke, holding stormtrooper helmet. Alas, poor stormtrooper, I knew ye not, yet have I taken both uniform and life From thee. What manner of a man wert thou? A man of inf'nite jest or cruelty? A man with helpmate and with children too? A man who hath his Empire serv'd with pride? A man, perhaps, who wish'd for perfect peace? What'er thou wert, goodman, thy pardon grant Unto the one who took thy place: e'en me.” The original trilogy *''William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, a New Hope'' (2013) ** based on ''Star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Doescher
Ian Doescher (born 1977) is an American fiction writer, best known as the author of the plays in the ''William Shakespeare's Star Wars'' series, parodic retellings of George Lucas's ''Star Wars'' films (1977–2005) in blank verse and 16th-century style of William Shakespeare. Personal life Doescher 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 lives with his wife and two children in Portland, Oregon. Doescher claims to be only a ''Star Wars'' and ''Star Trek'' fan and not well versed in other science-fiction literature. The idea for ''WSSW'' came to him when he went to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland shortly after reading '' Pride and Prejudice and Zombies''. After the first draft was shown to Lucasfilm, their response was "We like this and it’s fun, but we’d like to see Ian do more with it. Go ahead and have some more fun with it, and go out of bounds of mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Force Awakens
''Star Wars: The Force Awakens'' (also known as ''Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens'') is a 2015 American epic space opera film co-produced, co-written, and directed by J. J. Abrams. The sequel to ''Return of the Jedi'' (1983), it is the first installment of the ''Star Wars'' sequel trilogy and chronologically the seventh film of the "Skywalker Saga". Set thirty years after ''Return of the Jedi'', ''The Force Awakens'' follows Rey, Finn, Poe Dameron, and Han Solo's search for Luke Skywalker and their fight in the Resistance, led by General Leia Organa and veterans of the Rebel Alliance, against Kylo Ren and the First Order, a successor to the Galactic Empire. The film stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong'o, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Max von Sydow. Work on a seventh entry in the "Skywalker Saga" commenced after the Walt Disney Company's acquis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
