{"id":29204,"date":"2015-09-17T13:30:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T20:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/?p=29204"},"modified":"2016-01-08T17:29:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T00:29:09","slug":"penguin-random-house-star-wars-shakespeare-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/penguin-random-house-star-wars-shakespeare-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Hark! Star Wars Shakespeare Books Are Clever, Fun, and Not to Be Missed"},"content":{"rendered":"

As good luck would have it, Star Wars William Shakespeare hardcover books<\/em><\/strong><\/a> from Quirk Books and Penguin Random House have arrived and they are just the books you\u2019re looking for!<\/p>\n

Written by Ian Doescher, these officially licensed re-tellings of the six Star Wars<\/em> films will transport you back to the time of the Bard of Avon. <\/p>\n

Clever and<\/em> hilarious, you will be amazed at how well the stories of Luke Skywalker and his friends fit glorious iambic pentameter.<\/p>\n

Hark! The prologue from Star Wars: Verily, a New Hope<\/em> will surely charm your wits:<\/p>\n

“It is a period of civil war.
\nThe spaceships of the rebels, striking swift
\nFrom base unseen, have gain’d a vict’ry o’er
\nThe cruel Galactic Empire, now adrift.
\nAmidst the battle, rebel spies prevail’d
\nAnd stole the plans to a space station vast,
\nWhose pow’rful beams will later be unveil’d
\nAnd crush a planet: ’tis the DEATH STAR blast.
\nPursu’d by agents sinister and cold,
\nNow Princess Leia to her home doth flee,
\nDeliv’ring plans and a new hope they hold:
\nOf bringing freedom to the galaxy.
\nIn time so long ago begins our play,
\nIn star-crossed galaxy far, far away.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Each film is told as a parody play, complete with stage directions and gorgeous Elizabethan illustrations.<\/p>\n
Marry, these tales of faithful Wookies and fearsome Stormtroopers have never been more cleverer or amusing.<\/p>\n
The books are hardcovers and consist of 176 pages. They measure 8 3\/10-inches tall x 5 3\/5-inches wide.<\/p>\n
If your interest has been sparked, prithee, head to Entertainment Earth where they are available for pre-order<\/a> and expected to arrive in October 2015.<\/p>\n
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\u00bb Pre-Order Verily, A New Hope Book<\/a><\/h4>\n
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$\"Empire$ <\/a><\/center><\/p>\n
\u00bb Pre-Order The Jedi Doth Return Book<\/a><\/h4>\n
$\"Return$ <\/a><\/center><\/p>\n
\u00bb Pre-Order The Phantom of Menace: Star Wars Part the First Book<\/a><\/h4>\n
$\"Phantom$ <\/a><\/center><\/p>\n
\u00bb Pre-Order The Clone Army Attacketh: Star Wars Part the Second Book<\/a><\/h4>\n
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\u00bb Pre-Order Tragedy of the Sith’s Revenge Star Wars Part the Third Book<\/a><\/h4>\n
$\"Revenge$ <\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As good luck would have it, Star Wars William Shakespeare hardcover books from Quirk Books and Penguin Random House have arrived and they are just the books you\u2019re looking for! Written by Ian Doescher, these officially licensed re-tellings of the six Star Wars films will transport you back to the time of the Bard of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":29235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[158,1044,390,164],"tags":[3010,3297,419,3298],"yst_prominent_words":[6277,6680,25581,9152,6703,14998,20579,25580,7666,5955,5780,5779,5825,25579,25578,5781],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29204"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36351,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29204\/revisions\/36351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29204"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=29204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}