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William Shakespeare's Star Wars

By: Ian Doescher
Narrated by: Various
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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. ’Tis a tale told by fretful droids, full of faithful Wookiees and fearsome Stormtroopers, signifying...pretty much everything.

Reimagined in glorious iambic pentameter, William Shakespeare’s Star Wars will astound and edify Rebels and Imperials alike. Zounds! This is the audiobook you’re looking for.

This audiobook is read by Daniel Davis, Jonathan Davis, January LaVoy, Marc Thompson, and the author, Ian Doescher.

Includes an afterword read by the author.
Adventure Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Science Fiction Star Wars Shakespeare Interstellar Thought-Provoking Funny

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memorable 'Is this an asteroid I see before me?' and loved R2D2 idiom! an excellent 3CPO too.

Brilliant

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Thoroughly entertaining from Tatooine to the Death Star. The characters portrayed are almost all spot on (perhaps a little too much John Wayne in Han Solo), but that's a minor quibble. I look forward to the next episode. This has been my first experience of audible and my eyes are grateful for the rest. Excellent.

"Bleep bleep, whistle, squeak" ...

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I absolutely loved this book and as an actor I wanted to hear it performed and I was not disappointed! The only thing I am disappointed in is that not all of the editions have been recorded to audiobook!

Voices are brilliant! Brings text alive!

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Both as a concept and how this then works out in practice it is brilliant. The more one knows about Star Wars and about Shakespeare, the bigger the laughs. Excellently done. It is good to have some light hearted pieces to listen to occasionally. I hope the same people do some more of the same.

Extremely amusing

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I cannot believe the voices, they are pretty much spot on! did the author use AI or actuql voice actors because Luke and C-3PO sounded exactly like their movie characters,

A really interesting idea that stuck to the original movie while adding a lot of humour. C-3PO was absolutely hilarious!

How could you not love this?

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