 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 aloud.  The Works of Sydney Smithper Sydney Smith - 1839Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Thomas Henry Lister - 1838 - 578 pàgines
...our English literature. That wish is now gratified to its full extent. The volumes before us, ooth as to size, neatness, and price, are every thing that...BOWDLER, Esq. FRS New Edition, in 1 large volume, Hvo. with 36 Illustrations after Smirke, Howard, &c. 30s. cloth; with gilt edges, 31s. 6d. Or in large... | |
 | Leveson Venables Vernon-Harcourt - 1838 - 560 pàgines
...8vo. with Frontispiece and Vignette, price 5s. each, cloth lettered. *»* 9 Volumes are now published. FAMILY SHAKSPEARE; In which nothing is added to the...a Family. By T. BOWDLER, Esq. FRS New Edition, in one large volume, 8vo. with 36 Illustrations after Smirke, Howard, &c. 30s. cloth ; with gilt edges,... | |
 | Sir William Jackson Hooker - 1838 - 508 pàgines
...Svo. with Frontispiece and Vignette, price 5s. each, cloth lettered. *»* 9 Volumes are now published. FAMILY SHAKSPEARE; In which nothing is added to the...a Family. By T. BOWDLER, Esq. FRS New Edition, in one large volume, Svo. with 36 Illustrations after Smirke, Howard, &c. 30s. cloth ; with gilt edges,... | |
 | Robert Martin Adams - 1983 - 646 pàgines
...as the Reverend Thomas Bowdler's Family Shakespeare (1818), from which, in the editor's words, "all those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family. " Thus the Victorian evangelicals produced a kind of bloodless, sexless, sanitary domestic spirituality... | |
 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - 1991 - 552 pàgines
...published an edition of Shakespeare which he titled The Family Shakespeare. Its title page promised that "those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family." Appropriating to himself the discretion he thought Shakespeare lacked, Bowdler reiterated his position... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1996 - 876 pàgines
...Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1818), 10 vols. Thomas Bowdler's second edition bears the subtitle: 'in which nothing is added to the original text; but...cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family.' Cadogan, Mary and Patricia Craig, You're a Brick, Angela! A New Look at Girls' Fiction from 1899-1975... | |
 | Arthur Sullivan, William Schwenck Gilbert - 2001 - 1222 pàgines
...derives from Thomas Bowdler, who in 1818 brought out an edition of Shakespeare from which 'those words are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family'. 22 Ah! we will get them Bowdlerized: In the licence copy a two-line chorus is printed here: Yes, we'll... | |
 | 298 pàgines
...lifework on the Isle of In 1818 Bowdler published a diluted ten-volume edition of Shakespeare's works "in which nothing is added to the original text; but those words are omitted that cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family." He had toned down suggestive dialogue... | |
 | Jonathan Bate - 1998 - 420 pàgines
...his name (and his alone) appeared on the tide-page of the complete Family Shakspeare, in Ten Volumes; in which nothing is added to the original text, but...which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family. Henrietta's anonymity remained a prime concem, for it was not regarded as ladylike to publish. Thus... | |
 | Joanna Gondris - 1998 - 428 pàgines
...multiple editions in the nineteenth century. I have consulted The Family Shakespeare, in Ten Volumes, in Which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, but...Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with ProprietyBe Read in a Family (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818). Bowdler does include... | |
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