Shakespeare's Star Wars?

Joseph Campbell studied William Shakespeare’s plays extensively in his research for his landmark work The Hero With A Thousand Faces. And George Lucas used Campbell’s research on archetypes and “The Hero’s Journey” when revising his script for Star Wars. In the afterword of William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope, Ian Doescher writes, “Campbell studied Shakespeare… and Lucas studied Campbell… So it’s not at all surprising that the Star Wars saga features archetypal characters and relationships similar to those found in Shakespearean drama.” This is Doescher’s attempt—inspired by a lifetime love of the film and a trip to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival—to complete the loop, adapting A New Hope as a five-act, Elizabethan-era adventure in iambic pentameter.