Ian Doescher /ˈdɛʃər/ (born 1977)[1] is an American fiction writer, best known as the author of the plays in the William Shakespeare's Star Wars Trilogy series, Verily, a New Hope (2013), The Empire Striketh Back (2014), and The Jedi Doth Return (2014), parodic retellings of George Lucas's Star Wars film trilogy (1977–1983) in blank verse and 16th-century style of William Shakespeare.