A decent companion piece to Ian Doescher's third and final Shakespeare/Star Wars mash-up, in which the author outlines some of the common elements that the two share. It covers the same sort of ground as the first two educator's guides, but of course it uses examples from the third book instead. However, I did note one or two errors; the text mistakes it for The Empire Striketh Back at one point (page 20) and in a couple of example passages on page 8, it cites the Emperor as the speaker when it is in fact Vader and Luke.

These educator's guides can be used to help the reader pick out some of the Shakespeare references in Doescher's play. It doesn't point out all of them (there are far too many for that), but it may point out some that you hadn't realised. But the best use of these guides are as an insight into the structure of Shakespeare's plays and how Doescher was influenced by them. Doescher goes a long way in removing the trepidation many might have about reading Shakespeare; in fact, as he mentions on page 5, because of his many references in the play, if you have read William Shakespeare's The Jedi Doth Return, you've already read some Shakespeare." I for one owe Doescher a debt for making Shakespeare's work more accessible, and I'm sure others feel the same." ( )