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William Shakespeare's The Force Doth Awaken

Star Wars Part the Seventh

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 Experience The Force Awakens as a Shakespeare play, complete with Elizabethan verse, Shakespearian monologues, and theatrical stage directions! As the noble Resistance clashes with the vile First Order, Rey, Finn, Poe Dameron, Kylo Ren, and BB-8 are pulled into a galaxy-wide drama—in iambic pentameter! Star Wars fans and Shakespeare enthusiasts alike will enjoy the authentic meter, reimagined movie scenes and dialogue, and hidden Easter eggs throughout. Chewbacca speaks! Leader Snoke gives a soliloquy! And the romance of Han Solo and Leia Organa takes a tragic turn that Shakespeare would approve of. All with woodcut-style illustrations that place Star Wars characters into an Elizabethan galaxy. The story may take place in a galaxy far, far away, but you’ll be convinced it was written by the Bard.

Cast of Narrators:
Jessica Almasy
Daniel Davis
Jonathan Davis
Ian Doescher
Jeff Gurner
Ralph Adriel Johnson
Sean Kenin
January LaVoy
Marc Thompson Drama & Plays Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction Shakespeare Space Opera Classics Star Wars Interstellar
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This book is very cleverly written.

It's much more technically sophisticated than the first trilogy.

That doesn't make it fun though.

There can of course be an overlap, but I suspect that the joke of WS writing Star Wars appealed more to Star Wars fans rather than fans of Shakespeare.

By making this more Shakespearean it loses its primary appeal. If I wanted to listen to Shakespeare I'd do that rather than a cod version that subsequently loses all the fun and bombast of its source material.

And BB-8! The dialogue for the droid wasn't fun even once. It becomes excruciating when you have to listen to it again and again and again. There is apparently a code you can use to decipher meaning from the gibberish but in all honesty why would you want to?

And is it just me or does Han Solo keep referring to the Millennium Falcon as the Milenum Falcon?

Overall I can't recommend the first 3 books enough. They are excellent fun.

This one was simply a chore, the joke has been over-played and hoist by its own petard it leaves me with no desire for any more.

Way, WAY too much BB-8

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