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Personally, I detested "Romeo & Juliet" when we took it in grade 10*. I would have welcomed the Leo movie version, or the graphic novel. That having been said, however, I believe that if the play is in the curriculum, it should be presented as such in it's original form. Using movies and graphic novels as a supplement is fine, but the original play should be studied and analyzed. I am a bit of an alarmist, and think that substituting the original work with an adaptation or an abridgment is the first teeny tiny little stumble down the very slippery slope of bowdlerization and censorship.
*Not that I dislike Shakespeare, by the way. I adored Macbeth when I read it for the first time in grade 11, and was fascinated by Hamlet in grade 12.
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