The Bowdler Shakespeare : In Six Volumes; in which Nothing Is Added to the Original Text; but those Words and Expressions Are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety Be Read Aloud in a Family (Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Dr

Shakespeare, William/ Bowdler, Thomas (EDT)

Cambridge University Press（2009/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 528 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781108001120
• DDC分類 822.33

Full Description

'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 Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Cymbeline.

Contents

1. Troilus and Cressida; 2. Coriolanus; 3. Julius Caesar; 4. Antony and Cleopatra; 5. Cymbeline.