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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 Omitted which Cannot with ... Collection - Literary  Studies) (Volume 1)
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 Collection - Literary Studies - Volume 1
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: 9781108001083
ISBN-10: 1108001084
Publication Date: 7/20/2009
Pages: 516
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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