Ian Doescher

Listen to "Ian Doescher Releases Pop Skakespeare" on Spreaker. Each book in the POP SHAKESPEARE SERIES is officially licensed and adapts the script of a beloved movie or television show into Shakespearean verse, giving a witty Elizabethan makeover to iconic scenes and dialogue as if the Bard had written your favorite pop culture touchstones himself! The series begins with WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S MUCH ADO ABOUT MEAN GIRLS and WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S GET THEE BACK TO THE FUTURE. "William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Mean Girls" gives fans the opportunity to treat themselves to the epic drama—and heroic hilarity—of the classic teen comedy rendered as a stage play. Heroine Cady disguises herself to infiltrate the conniving Plastics, falls for off-limits Aaron, struggles with her allegiance to newfound friends Damian and Janis, and stirs up age-old vendettas among the factions of her high school. Through "William Shakespeare’s Get Thee Back to the Future," Doescher portrays Marty McFly’s quest to unite his parents and save his family with humorous asides, engaging soliloquys, Easter eggs, and Shakespearean renditions of hit songs from the movie’s soundtrack, including “The Power of Love” by Huey Lewis and the News and Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode.” Doescher, who is excited to share these new renditions of his favorite films, adds that “with every Shakespearean take on a movie, I have the opportunity as an author to delve into the emotional lives of beloved characters like Cady Heron and Marty McFly. In doing so, I'm trying to give readers something unique and fun that adds to their experience of the films. With any luck, I am also attracting people to Shakespeare at the same time.” Brett Cohen, Quirk Books’ publisher, praises Doescher, saying that “he’s clearly a master of iambic pentameter. But, he’s also a student of Shakespeare and each individual movie he tackles. He makes each of these books special by infusing the modern movies with sly references to Shakespearean tropes, characters or plot lines. In the process, readers get a new perspective on the familiar movie that they know and love.”