William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future! by Ian Doescher

Thank you, Ian, for making Shakespeare a little less intimidating. actually, you're just a couple years my senior and practically a contemporary.

(Certainly he's waiting with bated breath to hear what an accounting firm file clerk thinks about his book, so he's sure to see this, right?) Thank you Mr.

whatever this is.)įirst I must give a 'thank you' to Mr. (Actual review is marked below after a couple paragraphs of. If this were my first experience with this kind of thing, the novelty factor might even carry it to five stars, but alas, I have a basis for comparison, so 3.5 it is. It would be a solid four+ as a standalone work, but I'm also pitting it against the other eight Shakespearean books I've read by the same author, and I enjoyed some of those more. The movie I want to see tackled next in the Pop Shakespeare series is Ghostbusters.ģ.5 stars rounded up to four. People who have watched Marty destroy a pine tree as many times as I have and read more Shakespeare than me would probably appreciate this book even more. I don’t think this book would have been nearly as enjoyable if I hadn’t seen the movie so many times. I particularly liked the DeLorean’s side mirrors and being able to see the Flux Capacitor fluxeth. Kent Barton’s illustrations give well known scenes the Shakespeare treatment. Einstein’s barks are translated and Biff calling Marty a ‘butthead’ is translated to “thou arse-like pate”, which is just perfect. Huey Lewis gets to reference many of his song titles, Marty sings The Pow’r of Love and Marty from Back to the Future Part II stops by. I also enjoyed the Easter eggs I found, although I’m sure I missed a bunch of them. The three acrostics, which the author mentions in the Afterward, were fun to find. Thine eyes shalt witness shit most serious.

When this - my baby, source of all my hopes. Not only could I compare the lines with the original ones but I easily imagined the movie scenes being performed the Shakespeare way. My decades long obsession really helped when I finally picked up this book.

I have watched it so many times I could recite entire scenes to you but I know how annoying that is so I won’t. Back to the Future is one of my all-time favourite movies. When thou dost put thy mind unto the task,

William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future! by Ian Doescher