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The Bowdler Shakespeare : In Six Volumes ; In which Nothing Is Added to the Original Text ; but those Words and Expressions Are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety Be Read Aloud in a Family. Volume 6 by William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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'The Family Shakspeare: in which nothing is added to the original text, but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read in a family.' These words on the title pages of this edition gave rise to the verb 'to bowdlerise' - to remove or modify text considered vulgar or objectionable. Although the first edition was in fact created by Henrietta Maria Bowdler (1750-1830) and published in 1807, the many subsequent editions were published under the name of her brother Tho
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- Author
- William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler
- Publisher
- publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781108001106
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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