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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 (Paperback)
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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 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, Volume 1
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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 Thomas (1754 1825), who devoted his
time to prison reform and chess, as well as the sanitising of
Shakespeare. The Bowdlers' work became enormously popular as the
scandal-ridden Regency gave way to Victorian respectability. This
volume, from the 1853 edition, contains The Tempest, Two Gentlemen
of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night, Measure for
Measure, Much Ado about Nothing and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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