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William Shakespeare's The Jedi Doth Return (2014)

by Ian Doescher(Favorite Author)

4.23 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

159474713X (ISBN13: 9781594747137)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Quirk Books

series

William Shakespeare's Star Wars

review 1: I have rarely enjoying reading something aloud so much as this. When you know the movies by heart like I do, it becomes a revelation when you can find a new twist, or something new to love in it. I just picked this up as gag...and with Jabba in the front wearing a floppy medieval hat, I thought this was priceless. I have checked out other books with worse covers and less to recommend them and I never expected much. I didn't expect to get a fraction of the enjoyment out of them as promised on the cover.The Jedi Doth Return is equal parts cheesy and funny with little bits of the bard himself quoted. It's fully sanctioned by Lucas films, but you can really get into this best by reading it aloud.How else does Shakespeare (or really any other play) make the best sense, except b... moreeing read aloud?!So, my husband and I took turns reading this out loud to each other during a icky commute back and forth one week and doing all the voices (and songs!!) it probably took about 3 1\2 hours total to read through it. It literally was the highlight of the week and of each day. Mind you we did not geek out alone...two of those days we shared a ride and my friend loved it too.Here is an excerpt from an early scene where Luke is at Jabba's palace attempting to rescue his friends. He enters the room where Jabba's entourage sits and this is right after he spots Leia wearing that famous belly dance outfit. LUKE (aside:) Say what is this? My Leia sparsely clad. All in metal- fashion'd suit?How strange! I did expect one of our companyTo be enclos'd in steel, but not like this. I am waiting for the day when this is performed by a likely (or unlikely) troupe of actors.Anon good friend, anon...
review 2: One last time -- you know the plot.It's much on the same principle as the first two, with no major innovations. Ewok speech got a different rendering from Chewie and R2D2, but like them, they don't speak standard English. But it continues with the same principles. Darth Vader has several asides or soliloquies to explain his conflicted heart over his son, for instance.The stage directions are such that I think this is aimed for an actual Elizabethean stage -- scenery? what's that? -- with two simultaneously scenes played out on stage or balcony, or even different parts of the stage.Still fun. And R2D2 gets to give a speech at the end, from his position as the Shakespearean fool. less

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