'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 Titus Andronicus, King
Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Othello.
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