| Ashley Montagu - 2001 - 388 pągines
...that he considered improper. In 1818 appeared his ten-volume The Family Shakespeare, "In which nothing is added to the original text; but those words and...cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family." The verb "to bowdlerize" was a very active one during this century, and Dr. Bowdler's example was widely... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2000 - 684 pągines
...etc.). Needless to say, THOMAS BOWDLER found no place for them in his Family Sh. (1807, etc.), in which "those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family." But in his ed. 1821, p. 214, BOSWELL wrote cordially of the merits of Lucrece, which he preferred to... | |
| Elizabeth O'Neill - 2001 - 241 pągines
...Dr. Thomas Bowdler, who in 1818 published an edition of Shakespeare's works in which, as he said, " those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family." Sometimes a badly-dressed or peculiar-looking person is described as a guy. This word comes from the... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2001 - 686 pągines
...of JOHNSON, STEEVENS, & REED.] THOMAS BOWDLER (Works, Family Sh., 6 vols., 1860-5, vol. iii) [1860] ["Those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read in a family."] WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK & WILLIAM ALDIS WRIGHT (King Richard II, Select Plays; Clarendon... | |
| Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux, Neil Fraistat - 2002 - 278 pągines
...1823, 1825, 1827, 1831, 1839, 1849, and 1850. Bowdler prefaced the 1818 edition by saying that "Nothing is added to the original text; but those words and...which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family" (fig. 12). Ostensibly a man of high moral probity, Bowdler saw himself performing a public service.... | |
| Stanley Wells - 2003 - 494 pągines
...(1754-1830), sister of Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), in the notorious 'Family Shakespeare, in which nothing is added to the original text, but those words and...cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family'. Publication in 1807 of the four-volume edition was anonymous, perhaps, as Gary Taylor suggests, as... | |
| Darryl Jones - 2002 - 228 pągines
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| Alun Roberts - 2002 - 164 pągines
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