Thursday, April 25, 2013

"Forsooth, a great disturbance in The Force hath I just felt."


This one should be a lot of fun - Star Wars reimagined as a Shakespearean saga with Elizabethan-style stage directions and iambic pentameter! R2-D2 will launch into dramatic soliloquies whenever other characters leave the stage. William Shakespeare's Star Wars - Verily, A New Hope  (Ian Doescher, Nicolas Delort) arrives in  comic shops and bookstores this July at the reasonable price of $14.95 and will feature Elizabethan "woodcut" illustrations of the characters. "Blow, Alderaan, and crack your cheeks!"

"Dost thou take me for a mountebank?!? Cocky not becomest thee..."



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  1. DrewMay 22, 2013 at 2:10 AM

    Unfortunately, while this sounds like a fun idea, the fact that they can't even get their Early Modern English right in the ad campaign makes me wary of checking out the book: "hath" shouldn't be used with first-person verbs, so it should be "Forsooth, a great disturbance in the force have I just felt." It's so easy to research Early Modern English, so I can't understand why people can't get it right, especially in a project like this that calls for Early Modern English. Throwing in random examples of "-th" and "-st" endings in the WRONG places is a good indicator that a book's NOT worth checking out . . .

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