This reminds me of the story that some secondary schools are dumbing down Shakespeare.

Here’s a great example from an article in The Times about it:

Shakespeare poetically describes the build up to the kiss between Romeo and Juliet in Act One, Scene Five. Romeo then kisses Juliet and declares:

Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purg’d.’

The climatic scene is reduced to the following in the CGP book:

Juliet: What are you thinking about?
Romeo: Oh, just moons and spoon in June.
Juliet: Wow. Give us a snog then.

There’s making literature more accessible and then there’s just out right crucifying it!