Romeo and Julian
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Romeo & Juliet remade as Romeo & Julian?!?! The horror!
Sir Ian McKellen liked it. But conservative politicians saw another chance to announce to the world that they were shocked and appalled:
Calling for a debate on political correctness during questions on upcoming Commons business, Tory MP Philip Davies said: “This is mind-blowing.”
“Anyone with an ounce of sense would want their children to be learning Romeo and Juliet rather than Romeo and Julian.”
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“It is very worrying that this literary masterpiece is being used for such a politically-correct purpose.”
Eccentric and tendentious versions of Shakespeare plays are nothing new. The various scholarly and traditional performance editions of the plays survive and continue to be steadily studied and performed.
Gay Romeo and Julian school play called ‘political correctness’ gone mad
