Thomas Bowdler (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
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Bowdler’s The Family Shakspeare (1818) made Bowdler famous and made his name synonymous with the practice of censoring literary texts by omitting verbal vulgarity. Modern research has found that his purification of William Shakespeare was initially a collaborative effort and that his sister Henrietta should be given primary responsibility for the 1807 abbreviated edition that was published in four volumes in the city of Bath. But it was Thomas Bowdler himself who...
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