William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Mean Girls
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Ian Doescher
Celebrate Tina Fey's Mean Girls with this illustrated adaptation of the cult classic script, retold in Shakespearean verse by the best-selling author of William Shakespeare's Star Wars.On Wednesdays we array ourselves in pink! Mean Girls gets an Elizabethan makeover in this totally fetch comedy of manners about North Shore High’s queen bees, wannabes, misfits, and nerds. Written in the style of the Bard of Avon, William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Mean Girls tells the story of Cady Heron’s rise from home-schooled jungle freak to one of the most popular girls in school. Every scene and line of dialogue from the iconic script is reimagined in authentic Shakespearean rhyme, meter and stage directions, complete with dramatic asides from Janis, Damian, Gretchen, and Karen. By the end, you’ll be surprised that Shakespeare didn’t pen this classic story of rivalries, betrayal, jealousy, obsession, and fastidious rule-making about when one can and cannot wear sweatpants.
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Author
Ian Doescher
Pages
176
Publisher
Quirk Books
Published Date
2019-04-23
ISBN
1683691180 9781683691181
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"For some reason, 2019 has become the year of Shakespeare related things for me. I have managed to not read or see any of his actual plays but have read and seen numerous things in direct relation to the bard. For example, take the book I read earlier this year for the Popsugar Reading Challenge, Romeo and/or Juliet. Or the reread I did of Tom Stoppard’s classic Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead for the Goodreads Summer Reading Challenge. And I recently saw not one, but two Shakespeare themed performances, the first being a stage version of one of my favorite movies, Shakespeare in Love, and the other being a comedy routine of all of Shakespeare’s play performed in 90 minutes (I highly recommend that one, it was hysterical). So when I saw this in the Goodreads Choice Awards Humor category, it was a no brainer. Plus, what Millennial woman doesn’t like Mean Girls? Currently I’m on the hunt for the nearest city that is getting the musical, but this was a fun interlude for me in the meantime. I was actually really impressed with the author and the fact he modeled each character into existing Shakespeare roles, and my favorite quotes were all beautifully rendered! It's nothing life changing, but it was perfect reading while waiting around or watching crap TV."
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Allie Peduto