Thomas Bowdler
English physician Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825). In 1818 he published a censored version of Shakespeare (The Family Shakespeare), expurgating “those words and expressions […] which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family.”
English physician Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825). In 1818 he published a censored version of Shakespeare (The Family Shakespeare), expurgating “those words and expressions […] which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family.”