A long time ago, in Elizabethan England, a playwright named William Shakespeare wrote an epic space opera about a fierce battle between good and evil taking place in a galaxy far, far, away. Okay no, Shakespeare did not write the Star Wars trilogy, but imagine if he had. That's the premise behind Ian Doescher's new book, William Shakespeare's Star Wars , which translates the entirety of A New Hope into iambic pentameter and other Shakespearean prose. "Pray, RD-D2, where art thou?" asks C-3PO in the early pages. "Fairer necks than thine my hand hath crush’d," Vader warns Leia.
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/3/4490254/if-shakespeare-had-written-star-wars
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