Luke: Alas, poor stormtrooper, I knew ye not, It wouldn’t be a Shakespearean riff without one soliloquy from Hamlet and Doescher does not disappoint: To “hear” him speak in an understandable language is a joy that must be experienced. Nearly every character gets one, the best being R2-D2. Doescher uses this technique flawlessly, having everyone else exeunt while the final character on stage continues to speak. So, I leave you to find the others.īecause Shakespeare wrote for the stage and not the screen, he uses soliloquies to enable his viewers/readers to know what the people on stage are thinking. One of the joys of this book, however, is stumbling across the various allusions as you read it. There are many, many more that I just loved and I was tempted to list them all. That elsewhere lies my destiny, not here. I am sure that there are many that I missed, but the ones I caught were brilliantly integrated into the story: Doescher manages the iambic pentameter beautifully and fills the story with sly allusions to at least a dozen plays. If you are a lover of Shakespeare, this book is for you.
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