Ian Doescher
Author of William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope
About the Author
Ian Doescher received a B.A. in music from Yale University, a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary. He is the creative director at Pivot Group LLC, a full service marketing, research and web agency. He has written several books including William show more Shakespeare's Star Wars, William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back, and William Shakespeare's The Jedi Doth Return. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Photo by Shan Applegate.
Series
Works by Ian Doescher
Palpatine {short story} 1 copy
Associated Works
From a Certain Point of View: 40 Stories Celebrating 40 Years of Star Wars (2017) — Contributor — 770 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1977
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA (birth)
- Places of residence
- Portland, Oregon, USA
- Education
- Yale University (BA|Music)
Yale Divinity School
Union Theological Seminary (PhD) - Agent
- Ranta, Adriann
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William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Mean Girls… by Ian Doescher
such fun to read!
Shakespeare's best. Way ahead of its time.
Hilarious. Hi-lar-i-ous.
I think anyone who loves Star Wars and/or Shakespeare will get an immense kick out of this book. There are dozens of highlighted passages all over my book(/Kindle) and notes attached to them. It's wonderful getting to see the author makes asides with knowledge we know having seen Episodes 1-6 as a populace.
We can see where Beru and Obi-Won are both coming from with so much more drastic clarity, as well as asides from Vadar that reference his entire life. We can cringe and giggle at the whole of Leia and Luke, and every little reference to the word "sister."
Not to mention that the whole thing has taken quoted pieces from all over Shakespeare's plays and dovetailed them together, so that you're laughing at Star Wars, but also flailing happily about a line from Romeo & Juliet, MacBeth, Twelfth Night, and on and on. I'm definitely going to advise this for anyone who loves these ideas.
As is necessary as an English Master and a geek, I'm going to give you two ratings, the way I do when these two intersection.
As a Star Wars --> Shakespeare book
I'd rate it: Perfect Five Stars
As a Shakespeare Play --> Star Wars
I'd rate it a 3.9 Stars (It drags a little in Act IV-V for Shakespeare's liking)… (more)
I think anyone who loves Star Wars and/or Shakespeare will get an immense kick out of this book. There are dozens of highlighted passages all over my book(/Kindle) and notes attached to them. It's wonderful getting to see the author makes asides with knowledge we know having seen Episodes 1-6 as a populace.
We can see where Beru and Obi-Won are both coming from with so much more drastic clarity, as well as asides from Vadar that reference his entire life. We can cringe and giggle at the whole of Leia and Luke, and every little reference to the word "sister."
Not to mention that the whole thing has taken quoted pieces from all over Shakespeare's plays and dovetailed them together, so that you're laughing at Star Wars, but also flailing happily about a line from Romeo & Juliet, MacBeth, Twelfth Night, and on and on. I'm definitely going to advise this for anyone who loves these ideas.
As is necessary as an English Master and a geek, I'm going to give you two ratings, the way I do when these two intersection.
As a Star Wars --> Shakespeare book
I'd rate it: Perfect Five Stars
As a Shakespeare Play --> Star Wars
I'd rate it a 3.9 Stars (It drags a little in Act IV-V for Shakespeare's liking)… (more)
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