{"id":30398,"date":"2018-03-20T22:56:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T02:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=30398"},"modified":"2018-03-20T22:59:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T02:59:27","slug":"review-of-william-shakespeares-the-jedi-doth-return-by-ian-doescher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=30398","title":{"rendered":"Review of William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return, by Ian Doescher"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>William Shakespeare\u2019s<\/p>\n

The Jedi Doth Return<\/em><\/p>\n

by Ian Doescher<\/p>\n

Quirk Books, Philadelphia, 2014. 168 pages.
\nReview written in 2016.<\/p>\n

This third volume in William Shakespeare\u2019s Star Wars<\/em> was published quite some time ago \u2013 but I finally finished reading it because my son graduated from college and is living with me again for awhile.<\/p>\n

These books simply must be read out loud! I loved the way my son did the various voices \u2013 It\u2019s awfully amusing hearing Darth Vader and the Emperor speak in Shakespearean English. I think my own Chewbacca voice isn\u2019t too bad.<\/p>\n

Ian Doescher knows his Shakespeare. There are many references to Shakespeare plays in the text \u2013 most of which, I\u2019m sure I didn\u2019t pick up on.<\/p>\n

We read one Act at a time \u2013 which ends up being approximately a half-hour of reading, just enough that our voices didn\u2019t get too tired. I grant you there aren\u2019t a lot of female parts, but we mostly alternated characters. There are Five Acts, so once we got restarted (We read Act One months ago.), it took us about a week to finish.<\/p>\n

I still say these would be magnificent plays for a middle school to put on, or for a middle school or high school English class to read aloud in conjunction with studying a Shakespeare play. There\u2019d be plenty of food for discussion about Ian Doescher\u2019s adaptation, and I\u2019m guessing students wouldn\u2019t complain about the archaic language when they already know the story.<\/p>\n

This is another brilliant installment. I admit I was losing steam and wasn\u2019t sure I was going to get it read \u2013 but the opportunity to read it aloud reminded me what fun this series is.<\/p>\n

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Source: This review is based on a library book from Fairfax County Public Library.<\/p>\n

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