Though we do have a lot of Star Wars canon material in books and comics, there's a fun non-canon series that's officially published by Lucasfilm called William Shakespeare's Star Wars by Ian Doescher. The series started way back in 2013, and now we have the cover for the end of the saga, William Shakespeare's The Merry Rise of Skywalker.
Check it out:
via: Quirk Books
Here's the publisher's summary from Quirk Books:
Complete your collection of the William Shakespeare's Star Wars® series and experience the blockbuster finale to the Star Wars® saga in a brand-new way, here reimagined as though it had been penned by the Bard of Avon.
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.
Just in case you don't know, the book series basically takes the scripts of the original films and rewrites them into a play complete with the language of Shakespeare. The series started simply with William Shakespeare's Star Wars, followed by The Empire Striketh Back, The Jedi Doth Return, The Phaantom of Menace, The Clone Army Attacketh, Tragedy of the Sith's Revenge, The Force Doth Awaken, Jedi the Last, and now The Merry Rise of Skywalker.
The cover actually has a lot of great detail on it, and is the first to have two characters on the front. If you look closely, there's a tiny statue of Leia next to Kylo Ren, with a statue of Palpatine aligned with Rey. A bit spoiler-y, but I don't expect people who read this book to not be familiar with the originals.
William Shakespeare's The Merry Rise of Skywalker comes out on July 28, 2020.
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