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 5 /
'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 co...
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Language: | English |
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1818.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press |
Series: | Cambridge library collection. Literary Studies.
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