William Shakespeare's Star Wars

The New York Times Best Seller

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 Darth Vader to R2D2.

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.

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. Zounds! This is the book you're looking for.

Ian Doescher is the 
New York Times best-selling author of the William Shakespeare’s Star Wars® series, the Pop Shakespeare series, and 
MacTrump. He has written for Marvel Comics and is a contributing author to the story collection 
Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his family. Visit him at IanDoescher.com.

"Is it all a great, geeky, inter-galactic goblet of literary fun? Verily!" --"AmericanProfile.com" ..".a quirky addition to the genre-busting canon..."--Entertainment Weekly ..".what Doescher made is delicious."--Charleston City Paper ..".brilliant..."--Deseret News "This is a great read. Author Ian Doescher may not have bested Shakespeare, but he's certainly one-upped Lucas."--Asbury Park Press "As Shakespeare would say, you might think, this be madness, yet there is a method in 't."--Newsday ..".charming..."--The Courier-Journal ..".the ultimate fan fic."-- ABC News Radio """Doescher's pseudo-Shakespearean language is absolutely dead-on; this is one of the best-written Shakespeare parodies created for this audience and it is absolutely laugh-out-loud funny for those familiar with both The Bard and Star Wars."--"School Library Journal"" " "At last, the mother of all mashups is upon us."--CNET.com ..".outstanding."--Geekdad "Nicolas Delort's woodcut-style illustrations are a fabulous mixture of old and new."--"Boing Boing"" " "Delightful."--"PortlandMercury.com"" " "For anglophiles, scifi nerds, and probably 9th grade English students."--"The Bookreporter"" " "["William Shakespeare's Star Wars"] is a a brilliant and super-cool way to meld pop culture and high culture"--Bella Online ""William Shakespeare's Star Wars" is Exactly What You Need For Your Next Geeky Houseparty."--Tor.com "Doescher's attempt to recreate a Shakespearean play is noteworthy and clever."--"Blogcritics.org"" " "If there's one book perfect for any age, gender or planet of origin, this must be the book."--"Asbury Park Press" "The Bard at his finest, with all the depth of character, insightful soliloquies, and clever wordplay that we've come to expect from the Master. For those who wish to read the Star Wars legend in the original Elizabethan, thisw