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Et tu, Jabba? When 'Star Wars' met Shakespeare (images)

Something Wicket this way comes! Get an exclusive peek at illustrations from the third installment of Ian Doescher's best-selling Shakespeare "Star Wars" parody books.

Bonnie Burton
Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She is the author of the books Live or Die: Survival Hacks, Wizarding World: Movie Magic Amazing Artifacts, The Star Wars Craft Book, Girls Against Girls, Draw Star Wars, Planets in Peril and more! E-mail Bonnie.
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That it should come to this!

Join CNET's Crave for an exclusive look inside "William Shakespeare's The Jedi Doth Return" -- the third installment of the best-selling Shakespearean "Star Wars" parody books by Ian Doescher.

No Shakespeare play is complete without an epic duel like this battle between Luke Skywalker and Boba Fett.

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Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it

In a murder scene that would impress Lady Macbeth, Princess Leia gets her revenge against captor Jabba the Hutt.

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There's hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit

Chewbacca's rescue of Lando Calrissian and Han Solo from falling into the Great Pit of Carkoon is the stuff of Shakespearean heroes.

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Something Wicket this way comes

Our love for iambic pentameter will Endor thanks to Wicket the Ewok.

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