William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future!

William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future!

2019 • 176 pages

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15

A retelling of Back to the Future done in “Shakespearean style” - a dialogue-heavy script with little stage direction and a lot of iambic pentameter. You'd have to be a fairly big fan of both the Bard and the 1984 film to be interested in this. Luckily I am a fan of both, so this was a pretty enjoyable read.

At times the expository material seems heavy - there are a lot of cases of characters describing what they're doing, which is necessary for the way this was written but would seem odd if it were actually staged. There are enough Easter eggs throughout to keep the reading light and entertaining (I especially enjoyed how they handled the Huey Lewis cameo).

December 9, 2019Report this review