William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back

Star Wars part the fifth

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Ian Doescher: William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back (2014, Quirk Books)

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Published Aug. 24, 2014 by Quirk Books.

ISBN:
978-1-59474-715-1
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Ahh, quite wonderful. What a nice way to relive these films, in iambic pentameter. He has also varied the language a little more since the last one, not so much reliance on Fi! and other more cliché bits of Shakespearean language.

I especially enjoy the emphasis on the minor characters and some of their thoughts. It even makes you feel sad for the space slug (the one in the asteroid) who has a woeful soliloquy about perhaps his last meal getting away.