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" 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 Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 5
1826
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The History of England: The history of the Anglo-Saxons from the earliest ...

Sharon Turner - Great Britain - 1839 - 670 pages
...perusal of jouth, or for reading aloud. SHAKSPEARE, BY BOWDLER. THE FAMILY SHAKSPEARE; in which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and...expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be readaloud. By T. BOWDLER, Esq. FRS Seventh Edition (1839), 1 large vol. Svo. with 36 Illustrations...
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The Land and Literature of England: A Historical Account

Robert Martin Adams - History - 1983 - 646 pages
...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...
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The Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories

Merriam-Webster, Inc - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1991 - 552 pages
...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...
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Collected Works of Lindley Murray

Lindley Murray - 1996 - 876 pages
...Brown, and Green, 1818), 10 vols. Thomas Bowdler's second edition bears the subtitle: 'in which nothing is added to the original text; but those words and...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...
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The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan

Arthur Sullivan, William Schwenck Gilbert - Drama - 2001 - 1222 pages
...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...
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The Genius of Shakespeare

Jonathan Bate - Drama - 1998 - 420 pages
...alone) appeared on the tide-page of the complete Family Shakspeare, in Ten Volumes; in which nothing is added to the original text, but those words and...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...
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The Myth of Analysis: Three Essays in Archetypal Psychology

James Hillman - Philosophy - 1997 - 326 pages
...(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...
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Reading Readings: Essays on Shakespeare Editing in the Eighteenth Century

Joanna Gondris - Editing - 1998 - 428 pages
...in the nineteenth century. I have consulted The Family Shakespeare, in Ten Volumes, in Which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, but Those 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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The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel: From Richardson to George Eliot

Leah Price - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 236 pages
...Shakespeare. Bath: Thomas Crutwell, 1807. Bowdler, Thomas, ed. The Family Shakespeare, in which nothing is added to the original text; but those words and...which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family. London, 1818. ed. The Family Shakespeare. London: Longman, 1863. ed. The Dramatic Works of William...
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Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - Allusions - 2001 - 1166 pages
...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 those words and...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...
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