The Bowdler Shakespeare: Volume 6 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108001137)

'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 in a family.' These words on the title pages of this edition gave rise to the verb 'to bowdlerise' - to remove or modify text considered vulgar or objectionable. Although the first edition was in fact created by Henrietta Maria Bowdler (1750-1830) and published in 1807, the many subsequent editions were published under the name of her brother Thomas (1754-1825), who devoted his time to prison reform and chess, as well as the sanitising of Shakespeare. The Bowdlers' work became enormously popular as the scandal-ridden Regency gave way to Victorian respectability. This volume, from the 1853 edition, contains Titus Andronicus, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Othello.

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN-10: 1108001130
ISBN-13: 9781108001137
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/20/2009
Pages: 516
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.15d