Thomas Bowdler

Bowdler applied his personal sense of propriety to replace (or "Bowdlerize") the words selected by great authors, intending to render editions that were safe for families.

English physician and editor

Born	1754-07-11
Died	1825-02-24

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Family Shakspeare: King Henry the Sixth

by William Shakespeare and Thomas Bowdler First published in 2015
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The family Shakespeare ...

by William Shakespeare and Thomas Bowdler First published in 1807
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The family shakespeare in one volume: in which nothing is added to the original text, those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family.

by Thomas Bowdler First published in 1847
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Tentamen medicum, inaugurale, de febrium intermittentium natura et indole ...

by Thomas Bowdler First published in 1776
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Bowdler Shakespeare Vol. 5

by William Shakespeare and Thomas Bowdler First published in 2010
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Bowdler Shakespeare Vol. 2: 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

by William Shakespeare and Thomas Bowdler First published in 2010
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A letter to the editor of The British critic: occasioned by the censure pronounced in that work on "Johnson, Pope, Bowdler, Warburton, Theobald, Steevens, Reed, Malone, et hoc genus omne, all the herd of these and Meibomiuses of the British School" (vide British critic, April 1822, p. 372)

by Thomas Bowdler First published in 1823
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Liberty, civil and religious

by Thomas Bowdler First published in 1815
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Memoir of the Late John Bowdler, Esq: To Which Is Added Some Account of the Late Thomas Bowdler, Esq. , Editor of the Family Shakspeare

by Thomas Bowdler First published in 2023
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Bowdler Shakespeare : Volume 2: 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

by Thomas Bowdler and William Shakespeare First published in 2022
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Bowdler Shakespeare : Volume 5: 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

by Thomas Bowdler and William Shakespeare First published in 2022
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Bowdler Shakespeare : Volume 1: 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

by Thomas Bowdler and William Shakespeare First published in 2022
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A Short View of the Life and Character of Lieutenant-General Villettes: Late ...

by Thomas Bowdler and Elisabeth Princess of France First published in 1815
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The Family Shakespeare in Ten Volumes, Volume IV

by Thomas Bowdler First published in 2009
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The Family Shakespeare, By Thomas Bowdler

by Thomas Bowdler First published in 2010
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The family Shakespeare: 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

by William Shakespeare and Thomas Bowdler First published in 2009
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Letters written in Holland: in the months of September and October, 1787

by Thomas Bowdler First published in 1788
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Letters written in Holland, in the months of September and October, 1787

by Thomas Bowdler First published in 1788
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A short view of the life and character of Lieutenant-General Villettes: late lieutenant-governor and commander of the forces in Jamaica. To which are added letters written during a journey from Calais to Geneva, and St. Bernard in the year 1814.

by Thomas Bowdler First published in 1815
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Postscript to The fourth edition of the Family Shakespeare: (Account of the Bowdler family).

by Thomas Bowdler First published in 1824
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English physician and editor

Born	1754-07-11
Died	1825-02-24

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OLID: OL499659A
ISNI: 0000000025210101
Library of Congress Names: n85262214
SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): LIAV298564
VIAF: 53139330
Wikidata: Q1333546
Inventaire.io: wd:Q1333546

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