What if William Shakespeare had written Star Wars?
Here is the opening from the book:
PROLOGUE.
Outer space.
Enter
CHORUS
CHORUS
It is a period of civil war.
The spaceships of the rebels, striking swift
From base unseen, have gain’d a vict’ry o’er
The cruel Galactic Empire, now adrift.
Amidst the battle, rebel spies prevail’d
And stole the plans to a space station vast,
Whose pow’rful beams will later be unveil’d
And crush a planet: ’tis the DEATH STAR blast.
Pursu’d by agents sinister and cold,
Now Princess Leia to her home doth flee,
Deliv’ring plans and a new hope they hold:
Of bringing freedom to the galaxy.
In time so long ago begins our play,
In star-crossed galaxy far, far away.
[Exit]
Here is a PDF version of the first 16 pages.
I'm still waiting for Shakespeare to write "The Tragedy of Richard Nixon".
ReplyDeleteThe rhyme pattern is not Shakespearean.
ReplyDeleteYou know nothing about Shakespeare.
DeleteIt's a sonnet. abab cdcd efef gg. Seems like Shakespeare to me.
DeleteIt is unusual for Shakespeare to begin his plays with a sonnet. However, I think the intended reference is Romeo and Juliet, an early play which does begin with a prologue in sonnet form, and furthermore contains the phrased "star-crossed".
ReplyDeleteI'm about ready to get my Masters in Educashun and I've never heard of this Shakespeare guy.
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