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Marlowe's play is censored to spare Muslims.

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20051124
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Byline: STEPHANIE CONDRON

HE is one of our greatest playwrights, rated by many on a par with William Shakespeare.

But it seems Christopher Marlowe's work can no longer be performed as he wrote it.

His 1580s masterpiece, Tamburlaine the Great, was censored in a new production due to fears that the original would upset Muslims.

Scenes where the play's hero burns the Koran and criticises the prophet Mohammed were axed from the version at London's Barbican.

Marlowe saw his hero as an amoral warrior who headed east invading nation after nation in his bid to rule ...

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