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eBook – The Empire Striketh Back

eBook –  The Empire Striketh Back Full title :  William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back By : Ian Doescher  Iillustrations :  Nicolas Delort Score : 9/10 Year : 2014 Publisher : Quirk Books  eISBN :  978-1-59474-716-8 Based on  978-1-59474-715-1 (hard cover) Pages : 176 *  Language : English From Goodreads : Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back  (and not reviewed as yet,  William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return.) Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. Illustrated with beautiful black-and-white Elizabethan-style artwork, these two plays offer essential reading for all ages. Something Wookiee this way comes!  *** As he explains at the end, Ian Doescher
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TV show - Sherlock Holmes (1984)





TV show - Sherlock Holmes (1984)
Score : 8 /10 
Multiple directors
Country : UK
Language : English
Duration : 44 episodes (X50 minutes) + a 2 hour movie The Hound of Bakerseville, spread over 7 series from 1984 to 1994 

Jeremy Brett IS Sherlock Holmes. most of the episodes are close to the original novels they are based upon, with some liberties, especially towards the end of the show. It pains to see Jeremy become so sick at the end that some of these stories had to be altered a bit - with some or less success.

2 actors played Dr Watson ; it took me a second viewing to like both of them.

Contrary to some other adaptations, these are period specific, not updated to nowdays.

The intro suits the spirit of Holmes very well, with violins.

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