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Bowdlerized

From: WritersDigest.com

 

 

Note: If you don't care to read the history behind this prompt, skip to the end.

 

July 11 is Bowdler's Day, which in equal parts honors and ridicules English physician and philanthropist  Thomas Bowdler for his famed prudery. He is responsible for the publication of a book called  The Family Shakespeare in 1807. Finding Shakespeare's works too bawdy and inappropriate “to be read by a gentleman in the company of ladies," Bowdler censored Shakespeare's works to make them less offensive for women and children, with the assistance of his sister Henrietta. (You can read the full text of  The Family Shakespeare  here.)

 

While Shakespeare's plays are indeed brimming with naughty puns, murder, rape, suicide, etc., Bowdler's sanitization seemed nearly as bizarrely puritanical then as it does today. Since then, the word “bowdlerize" has been used as a word meaning “to censor or expurgate," especially in notably absurd or destructive ways.

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