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The Bowdler Shakespeare 6 Volume Paperback Set: In Six Volumes; In which Nothing Is Added to the Original Text; but those Words and Expressions Are Omitted ... Library Collection - Literary  Studies)
The Bowdler Shakespeare 6 Volume Paperback Set In Six Volumes In which Nothing Is Added to the Original Text but those Words and Expressions Are Omitted Library Collection - Literary Studies
Author: William Shakespeare
'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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781108001076
ISBN-10: 1108001076
Publication Date: 9/24/2009
Pages: 3,200
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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