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VANDALS Now the PC brigade are desecrating our great literary heritage; As Marlowe's classic play is cut to avoid offending Muslims.

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20051125
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Byline: JOHN MORTIMER

AT LAST it's happened.

The dead hand of political correctness has taken our literature by the throat and heaven knows where it's going to end.

The RSC is reviving Tamburlaine, a play by Christopher Marlowe, one of our greatest poets and dramatists, to be produced with the Bristol Old Vic.

Its producers in Bristol, it seems, are responsible for cutting some of the great Marlowe's lines because 'they might seriously offend Muslims in the audience'.

Marlowe is safely in his grave, but all lovers of literature must feel a spasm of horror at ...

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