William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Uncensored

Teenage sex, drugs, violence, double suicide - your latest cable nighttime soap? No. It's the classic Shakespearian tale about those world famous icons of young love, Romeo and Juliet. How did this ever get past the censors? it didn't. No sooner was the play published than the morality police began to raid its pages. Many of today's classroom editions have been carefully purged of their "offensive" lines. But the most effective censor of all was Shakespeare, himself. Camouflaged by exquisite Elizabethan poetry, earthy meanings pass right over many an unsuspecting head. What if Shakespeare's characters had access to the in-your-face phraseology of 21st century youth? What if they spoke in plain, uncensored English . . . ?