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The Bowdler Shakespeare: In Six Volumes; In which Nothing Is Added to the Original Text; but those Words and Expressions Are Omi
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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The Bowdler Shakespeare: In Six Volumes; In which Nothing Is Added to the Original Text; but those Words and Expressions Are Omi
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) William Shakespeare
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Edited by Thomas Bowdler
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| Series | Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama |
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| Series part Volume No. |
Volume 6
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:516 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 29 |
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| Category/Genre | Shakespeare plays
Literary studies - general |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781108001137
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| Classifications | Dewey:822.33 |
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| Audience | | Professional & Vocational | |
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| Illustrations |
Worked examples or Exercises
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
20 July 2009 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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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 Titus Andronicus, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Othello.
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