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Box Set Review: 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars Trilogy: The Royal Imperial Box Set'

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(C) 2014 Quirk Books and Lucas Books/Lucasfilm Ltd.  What if William Shakespeare had created Star Wars a long time ago in Elizabethan England far, far away? What would George Lucas’s late 20th Century techno-myth be like if his classic trilogy had been written in iambic pentameter - and for wooden stage sets? Most of us who have experienced Star Wars as a cultural phenomenon know that Lucas’s six-film saga, (not to mention the more recent Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and the forthcoming Star Wars: The Last Jedi )  were created in the Age of Cinema. From 1977, when Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Hope premiered, to the 2005 release of Star Wars - Episode III: Revenge of the Sith,  millions of moviegoers saw Lucas’s space fantasy depicted on film and home video as ultra-modern special effects extravaganzas. Because Lucas’s films are written for modern audiences in casual American English, the notion of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Sol