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Marlowe play avoids burning issue.

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From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20051124
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Byline: ALISTAIR FOSTER

AN ELIZABETHAN play with scenes showing the Koran being burned was censored to avoid upsetting Muslims.

Christopher Marlowe's 1580s masterpiece Tamburlaine The Great was edited by director David Farr and could have inflamed passions in the wake of the London bombings.

The original scene featuring the burning of the Koran became the destruction of a "load of old books" and key referencesto Mohammed were also dropped.

Lines deemed too offensive included: "Well, soldiers, Mahomet remains in hell; He cannot hear the voice of Tamburlaine," and ...

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