Just found this at the library, and now that I've read two pages I felt compelled to come and recommend it heartily to everyone!
I can't even imagine the work that went into translating Star Wars into a Shakespearean play. This is fabulous stuff!
William Shakespeare's Star Wars, by Ian Doescher -- Amazon 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
SCENE 1.
Aboard the rebel ship.
Enter C-3PO and R2-D2.
C-3PO
Now is the summer of our happiness
Made winter by this sudden, fierce attack!
Our ship is under siege, I know not how.
O hast thou heard? The main reactor fails!
We shall most surely be destroy'd by this.
I'll warrant madness lies herein!
R2-D2
--Beep beep,
Beep, beep, meep, squeak, beep, beep, beep, whee!
C-3PO
--We're doomed.
