Thomas Bowdler
Expurgated Shakespeare's plays
Thomas Bowdler was an English physician who published expurgated editions of Shakespeare and other authors in the early 19th century, removing content he considered unsuitable for women and children.
His name gave rise to the verb *bowdlerize*, meaning to prudishly censor a text by removing or altering passages deemed offensive or improper.
- censorshipOfficial content restriction
- expurgationRemoval of offensive content
- blue pencilEditorial deletion tool
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
- prudishExcessively concerned with propriety
Victorian · moral guardian · sanitize · family friendly · clean version · puritan · decency · morality · good taste · editing · propriety · polite society · expurgate · Family Shakespeare · modesty · squeamish · cleaned · deletions
Thomas BowdlerMarquis de Sade
Writer whose name became perversion
Henry Miller · libertine · D.H. Lawrence · James Joyce · provocateur
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