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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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Book- the world of the dark crystal




Book- the world of the dark crystal (collector's)
Author: Brian Froud
Score: 10/10
Year:  2002
Publisher : Harry M. Abrams
ISBN :  0810945797

132 pages + 20 (facsimile) - many have no texts, but illustrations 

The world of the dark crystal is an exquisitely rich book, with many illustrations, sketches and diagrams pertaining to the Dark Crystal movie - which I suggest viewing before reading. 

To my original movie review .

This book explores the movie, and gives background information on its earliest stages of development in the introduction by Brian Froud.
Some inlays extend one’s view into less obvious details in the art itself.

Then, the book has two sets of texts:  One in small fonts explaining various aspects of the Dark Crystal's world,  with its own astronomy, mythology, symbols and history - all invented for the purpose of this fantastic world, and even depicts sketches of objects and creatures seen in the movie for a split second, or not at all. 

Most pages also have bigger fonts, and are called the Book of Aughra - one of the movies protagonists. These texts are written in the first person, in Aughra’s voice. They give additional information as to the movie’s quest and tells also of more distant past events which took place prior to the movie.

Everything about this book pushes one’s appreciation for the entire mythological and fantastic invention that is The Dark Crystal. You may find that you want to watch the movie again after reading, just like it did for me. Search for those new details you just learned about, and appreciate it even more, in an endless cycle.



This limited edition doesn’t just reprint the original book, but also includes a small, un-numbered 20 pages facsimile of the original concept drawings Brian Froud & Henson created to present the film to backers. The story is abridged and contains names that would be later changed, but you’ll get to read what backers did – knowing that the original treatment exists in a very limited number of copies around the world and are very rare.  




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