William Shakespeare's The Merry Rise of Skywalker: Star Wars Part the Ninth

As our story opens, a sea of troubles threatens the valiant Resistance, who are pursued by the sound and fury of the vile First Order.

Can Rey, Poe, Finn, Rose, BB-8, Chewbacca, and their allies overcome such toil and trouble?

Shall Kylo Ren be proven fortune's fool or master of his fate?

What will become of the House of Skywalker? And is all well that ends well? Authentic meter, stage directions, reimagined movie scenes and dialogue, and hidden Easter eggs will entertain and impress fans of Star Wars¬ and Shakespeare alike.

Every scene and character from the film appears in the book, along with twenty woodcut-style illustrations that depict an Elizabethan version of the Star Wars¬ galaxy. Story Locale: An Elizabethan version of the Star Wars galaxy, with elements of both. Series Overview: What if the Star Wars saga had been created by William Shakespeare?

From Verily, A New Hope to Jedi The Last, each volume in this series presents one of the iconic George Lucas films written as a full-blown Shakespeare play.

Elizabethan dialog, Shakespearean meter, stage directions, inside jokes and woodcut-style illustrations pay homage to both source materials.

May the verse be with you!