bowdler in English

noun

family name; Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), English editor who censored and published Shakespeare's writings for family reading

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1. In fact, the term “Bowdlerized” comes from Henrietta “Harriet” Bowdler who edited the popular, “family-friendly” anthology The

2. Other articles where Bowdlerize is discussed: Thomas Bowdler: The word Bowdlerize, current by 1838 as a synonym for expurgate and now used in a pejorative sense, remains his most lasting memorial.

3. The term ' Bowdlerize ' was coined in 1936 to refer to the way Thomas Bowdler censored material he thought unsuitable for women and children in his edition of Shakespeare's works, The Family Shakespeare

4. Bowdlerize Henrietta and Thomas Bowdler were an English sister and brother who prepared and published an 1807 edition of Shakespeare’s works that was meant to be appropriate for women and children and for families to read together.

5. More About “Bowdlerize” The word “Bowdlerize” is an eponym, named after Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), a British physician known for editing (or bowdlerizing) Shakespeare’s works into The Family Shakspeare (sic) (1807), a ten-volume set of Shakespeare’s works

6. Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825) was an old school English Georgian gent, physician and philanthropist, but forever remembered for censoring Shakespeare and in doing so creating the eponymous verb Bowdlerize (or bowdlerise).So what does ‘Bowdlerize‘ mean…? bowd·ler·ized bowd·ler·iz·ing

7. *Bowdlerize, also BrE & AusE *bowdlerise*.* To censor or expurgate a text after the style of Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), editor of an edition of Shakespeare [1]'s plays from which explicit sexual references and avowedly vulgar elements were removed: ‘When The Taming of the Shrew was staged in