 | Keith Allan, Kate Burridge - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 254 pages
...Shakespeare. They produced the so-called 'Family Shakespeare' - from which, as he announced on the title page, 'those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family'. Bowdlerism, as it came to be known, targeted profanity and sexual explicitness. There was subsequent... | |
 | David Mikics - Reference - 2008 - 364 pages
...episode or phrase Bowdler considered offensive to decency. "Those words and expressions," as he put it, "are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family." Since then, bowdlerize has become a term for the mutilation of literary texts to make them conform... | |
 | Margreta de Grazia - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 16 pages
...Thomas Bowdler who expurgated Hamlet's entire monologue from his The Family Shakspeare: In Which . . . Those Words and Expressions are Omitted Which Cannot with Propriety Be Read in a Family (1807). In his 1765 edition of the play, Samuel Johnson admitted to the same impulse: This... | |
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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. 
