 | New Tablet - 1838 - 302 pages
...MELODIES. New Edition, foolscap 8vo. in the presa. FAMILY SHAKSPEARE ; In which nothing is added totlie Original Text; but those Words and Expressions are...which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a Family. By T. BOWDI.ER, Esq. FRS New Edition, in I large vol. Svo. with 36 Illustrations after Smtike, Howard,... | |
 | Charles Edward Trevelyan - Education - 1838 - 254 pages
...New Edition, foolscap 8vo. in the prea. FAMILY SHAKSPEARE; In which nothing is added to the Oricinal Text; but those Words and Expressions are omitted,...which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a Family. By T. Bowm.KK, Esq. FRS New Edition, in 1 large vol. 8vo. with 30 Illustrations after Smirke, Howard,... | |
 | Robert Martin Adams - Engelsk litteraturhistorie - 1983 - 646 pages
...as the Reverend Thomas Bowdler's Family Shakespeare (1818), from which, in the editor's words, "all those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family. " Thus the Victorian evangelicals produced a kind of bloodless, sexless, sanitary domestic spirituality... | |
 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1991 - 552 pages
...published an edition of Shakespeare which he titled The Family Shakespeare. Its title page promised that "those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family." Appropriating to himself the discretion he thought Shakespeare lacked, Bowdler reiterated his position... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1996 - 876 pages
...Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1818), 10 vols. Thomas Bowdler's second edition bears the subtitle: 'in which nothing is added to the original text; but those...cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family.' Cadogan, Mary and Patricia Craig, You're a Brick, Angela! A New Look at Girls' Fiction from 1899-1975... | |
 | Arthur Sullivan, William Schwenck Gilbert - Drama - 2001 - 1222 pages
...derives from Thomas Bowdler, who in 1818 brought out an edition of Shakespeare from which 'those words are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family'. 22 Ah! we will get them Bowdlerized: In the licence copy a two-line chorus is printed here: Yes, we'll... | |
 | Jonathan Bate - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) - 1998 - 420 pages
...name (and his alone) appeared on the tide-page of the complete Family Shakspeare, in Ten Volumes; in which nothing is added to the original text, but those...which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family. Henrietta's anonymity remained a prime concem, for it was not regarded as ladylike to publish. Thus... | |
 | Joanna Gondris - Editing - 1998 - 428 pages
...multiple editions in the nineteenth century. I have consulted The Family Shakespeare, in Ten Volumes, in Which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, but Those...Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with ProprietyBe Read in a Family (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818). Bowdler does include... | |
 | James Hillman - Philosophy - 1997 - 326 pages
...(1818), that the physician Thomas Bowdler (1754-1824) published his edition of Shakespeare, "in which those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family." Bowdler perceived the relationship between the imaginal and language, and he attempted to control the... | |
 | Leah Price - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 236 pages
...The Family Shakespeare. Bath: Thomas Crutwell, 1807. Bowdler, Thomas, ed. The Family Shakespeare, in which nothing is added to the original text; but those...which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family. London, 1818. ed. The Family Shakespeare. London: Longman, 1863. ed. The Dramatic Works of William... | |
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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 aloud. 
