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The Bowdler Shakespeare, Volume 5: 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

By William Shakespeare , Thomas Bowdler (editor)

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9781108001120
Google Books ID
Z0EFQAAACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15916461 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
Edition
1
Pages
525\525
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

'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 Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Cymbeline.

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