Canadian author Crad Kilodney created the “Shakespeare For White Trash” series to make Shakespeare understandable and enjoyable to the many millions of people living now who have little or no knowledge of Shakespeare, and to prove to them that the stories contained in Shakespeare's plays are superb. The plots and characters are unchanged, but everything else has been radically restyled. Read Crad's versions and you will become a Shakespeare fan.  Enjoy!Kilodney originally posted his versions on Wordpress.com from 2010 to shortly before his death in 2014. It was the first time that all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays had been rewritten by one author and published in one place. They are re-packaged here to increase the likelyhood of people, like you, finding them.Mr. Kilodney hoped acting companies would be encouraged to stage these plays more often.Gist of the story:Romeo and Juliet fall in love, but because their families have been feuding as long asanyone can remember, they can’t marry openly. So, with the help of the sympathetic Friar Laurence,they wed secretly. Only hours later, Romeo is confronted by Juliet’s hot-tempered cousin Tybalt, whowants to punish Romeo for sneaking into a party at the Capulets’ house. Romeo is unwilling to fightsomeone he is now related to by marriage, but Mercutio eagerly accepts Tybalt’s challenge. Tybalt killsMercutio. Then Romeo kills Tybalt. Romeo is now in big trouble because the Prince issued a deathdecree to stop further fighting in public between the warring Montagues and Capulets. Romeo has timefor one last visit to Juliet to consummate their marriage, and then he must flee to Mantua, where he hasbeen banished. Then things get really complicated. Capulet arranges a marriage for Juliet with Paris.She wants to avoid it but doesn’t tell her father she’s already married. Friar Laurence comes up with abizarre plan to help Juliet avoid the arranged marriage. He gives her a potion that will simulate deathfor 42 hours. Once she’s interred in the family crypt, he will send word to Romeo explaining what’shappened and instructing him to come to the cemetery and take Juliet away as soon as she wakes up.The plan goes horribly wrong, however. Romeo never gets Friar Laurence’s letter. Instead, he gets afalse report that Juliet has died. He returns to her tomb and, finding her apparently dead, he drinkspoison and kills himself. Then Juliet awakens and, finding her beloved Romeo dead beside her, shetakes his dagger and stabs herself in suicide. The feuding families arrive to discover the fatalconsequences of their feud. (Bear in mind that Romeo and Juliet are just kids, so don’t expect them toact like mature adults. Juliet is a few weeks shy of her fourteenth birthday. Romeo is probably aboutseventeen.)