Bowdlerization
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Shakespeare is bowdlerized between 1807 and 1818 when The Family Shakespeare is published, expurgating "those words and expressions... which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family." |
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Bowdlerization is the process of removing those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly. The term is derived of Thomas Bowdler who in 1818 published a censored version of Shakespeare, The Family Shakespeare, expurgating "those words and expressions... which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family."
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