May The Verse Be With You: Ye Olde Star Wars Trilogy
8/6/2016
Dee gets more excited about my birthday than I do. We received several suspicious parcels through the post today which she seemed eager for me to feel and weigh up. They are my birthday presents. Like a puppy drooling over a bone three times her size, Dee insisted we forgo waiting a few weeks and that I should open them now. Fortunately I’m somewhat more restrained and highlighted that if I did so then I’d be mightily disheartened come the day of celebrating my birth when I had nothing to unwrap. Respecting her strong enthusiasm however, I acquiesced to opening one of them.
Somewhat clumsily ripping open the cardboard box I revealed a corner of the content inside. A familiar wizened green face peeked out at me. It was Yoda, the short, lovable 900 year old sage from Star Wars. But he was wearing an Elizabethan ruff. Sliding the rest of the cardboard off revealed the gift to be ‘William Shakespeare’s Star Wars Trilogy’, a set of books retelling the first three sci-fi fantasy epics as The Bard might have viewed them. |
It was an excellent choice of birthday present. To be honest the recent release of the dreadful Star Wars: The Force Awakens has really tested my lifelong commitment to the Star Wars franchise, and at the moment any gift based on the saga could be met with ambiguous feelings on my part. Not so this wonderful box of books, which not only taps into my love of the original Star Wars movies but also a fondness for Shakespeare – and in the time of celebrating his 400th year too!
The set comprises of:
Verily, A New Hope
The Empire Striketh Back
The Jedi Doth Return
Having scanned through them I am impressed at the level of care given to the ‘translation’ into Shakespeare’s tongue. Books like these can so easily lend themselves to novelty, with publishers relying solely on the covers and general concept to flog a brand name. Author Ian Doescher clearly loves what he’s doing and the books seem littered with amusingly knowing lines. Having read an interview with him last year in an issue of Star Wars Insider these books were already on my radar, so I am happy to now be the proud owner of a beautifully presented box set.
The colossal effort it must have taken to write them aside, the artwork is worth a mention too. Included is an 8-by-34-inch poster in which we not only see our regular heroes and villains in Elizabethan garb, but rather humorously Princess Leia has been designed to look like a man, in keeping with the custom that there were no female actors in Shakespeare’s day.
Thanks Dee, this has easily been my best three-weeks-before-birthday present ever!
Verily, A New Hope
The Empire Striketh Back
The Jedi Doth Return
Having scanned through them I am impressed at the level of care given to the ‘translation’ into Shakespeare’s tongue. Books like these can so easily lend themselves to novelty, with publishers relying solely on the covers and general concept to flog a brand name. Author Ian Doescher clearly loves what he’s doing and the books seem littered with amusingly knowing lines. Having read an interview with him last year in an issue of Star Wars Insider these books were already on my radar, so I am happy to now be the proud owner of a beautifully presented box set.
The colossal effort it must have taken to write them aside, the artwork is worth a mention too. Included is an 8-by-34-inch poster in which we not only see our regular heroes and villains in Elizabethan garb, but rather humorously Princess Leia has been designed to look like a man, in keeping with the custom that there were no female actors in Shakespeare’s day.
Thanks Dee, this has easily been my best three-weeks-before-birthday present ever!
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