Harmy said:

none said:

Should I feel wronged and disturbed as I saw 'West Side Story' before reading 'Romeo and Juliet'?

Yes.

This isn't a tenable position. Stories are retold, recycled, combined, etc, over and over and over. T.H. White's "The Once And Future King" was the first Arthurian story I ever read, and it's still the only. I haven't read the older versions of King Arthur...and that is okay, at least for now. I've never read the entire "The Odyssey", but I've seen "O Brother Where Art Thou". etc etc