{"product_id":"9781927400739","title":"Shakespeare for Slackers: Macbeth","description":"You know, back in the day, Shakespeare wasn't considered elite. Oh sure, his plays were performed for royalty, but they were actually written for tradesmen, shopkeepers, average Joes, anybody who could pay a penny for a ticket. Mostly he wrote plays for the common man, using the language of the times.\u003cbr\u003eTimes have changed.\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eShakespeare for Slackers,\u003c\/i\u003e not only do you get the original play written by William Shakespeare, but you also get what a few of us think he probably would have written if he were still around today. (And if he sat around watching a lot of television.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's Shakespeare translated, retold, vandalized, brutalized, and outright demolished to suit the language of the times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy? Because we can.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe eBook version includes the threaded Slackers\/Original, pure Slackers, and the glory of the original.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe perfect companion for John Poulsen's: \u003ci\u003eShakespeare for Readers' Theatre.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Five Rivers Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47064361664752,"sku":"9781927400739","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781927400739_p0.jpg?v=1763636601","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781927400739","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}