Doescher, Ian
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1977- ) US author, based in Portland, Oregon. He is best known for a series of books, beginning with William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, a New Hope (2013), which retell the stories of George Lucas's Star Wars films as plays purportedly written by Shakespeare in Elizabethan blank verse; all are subtitled "Inspired by the Work of George Lucas and William Shakespeare". While these are executed capably, if ineffervescently, the conceit quickly grows tiresome; the presumably unintended message is that, in comparison to the genius of Shakespeare, Lucas's plots and characters seem simplistic and shopworn.
Doescher has also subjected non-Star Wars works to the same treatment, for example Back to the Future (1985) in William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future (2019). [GW/DRL]
Ian Doescher
born Portland, Oregon: July 1977
works (selected)
series
William Shakespeare's Star Wars
- William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, a New Hope (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Quirk Books, 2013) [William Shakespeare's Star Wars: hb/Nicolas Delort]
- William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back: Star Wars Part the Fifth (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Quirk Books, 2014) [William Shakespeare's Star Wars: hb/Nicolas Delort]
- William Shakespeare's The Jedi Doth Return: Star Wars Part the Sixth (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Quirk Books, 2014) [William Shakespeare's Star Wars: hb/Nicolas Delort]
- William Shakespeare's The Phantom Menace: Star Wars Part the First (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Quirk Books, 2015) [William Shakespeare's Star Wars: hb/Nicolas Delort]
- William Shakespeare's The Clone Army Attacketh: Star Wars Part the Second (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Quirk Books, 2015) [William Shakespeare's Star Wars: hb/Nicolas Delort]
- William Shakespeare's Tragedy of the Sith's Revenge: Star Wars Part the Third (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Quirk Books, 2015) [William Shakespeare's Star Wars: hb/Nicolas Delort]
- William Shakespeare's The Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Quirk Books, 2017) [William Shakespeare's Star Wars: hb/Nicolas Delort]
- William Shakespeare's Jedi the Last (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Quirk Books, 2018) [William Shakespeare's Star Wars: hb/Nicolas Delort]
- William Shakespeare's The Merry Rise of Skywalker (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Quirk Books, 2020) [William Shakespeare's Star Wars: hb/]
individual titles
- William Shakespeare's Christmas Carol (no place given: Kindle Edition, 2015) [ebook: Charles Dickens: illus/na/Josh Hicks]
- William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Quirk Books, 2019) [William Shakespeare's Star Wars: hb/Hugh Fleming]
- William Shakespeare's Avengers: The Complete Works (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Quirk Books, 2021) [coll: illus/Danny Schlitz: hb/]
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