...(1818), that the physician Thomas Bowdler (1754-1824) published his edition of Shakespeare, "in which those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family." Bowdler perceived the relationship between the imaginal and language, and he attempted to control the...

...Illustrated," Studies in the Novel 19 (Fall 1987): 296-307. 48 Thomas Bowdler, ed., The Family Shakespeare, in which nothing is added to the original text; but...which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family (London, 1818), x. 49 Thomas Bowdler, "A Letter to the Editor of the British Critic" (London: IjOngman,...

...Gibbon every word that he considered improper. In 1818 appeared his ten-volume The Family Shakespeare, "In which nothing is added to the original text; but...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...

...To expurgate a book. Thomas Bowdler, in 1818, gave to the world an edition of Shakespeare's works " in which nothing is added to the original text ; but...cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family." This was in ten volumes. Bowdler subsequently treated Gibbon's Decline and Fall in the same way. Hence...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Henrietta (1754-1830), sister of Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), in the notorious 'Family Shakespeare, in which nothing is added to the original text, but...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...

...1820, 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...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....

...Shakespeare and produced the so-called Family Shakespeare, from which, as he described on the title page, 'those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family'. Bowdlerism sought to expunge profanity and sexual explicitness. His activities led to the progressive...