Bowdler
Speech parts
1. Bowdler - Noun
2. Bowdler - Proper noun
Meaning
English editor who in 1818 published an expurgated edition of the works of Shakespeare (1754-1825)
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Examples
Each play is preceded by an introduction where Bowdler summarises and justifies his changes to the text.
Few editors have achieved the notoriety of Thomas Bowdler.
Bowdler applied his literary eraser broadly, and within 11 years of his death in 1825, the word was being used to refer to expurgating books or other texts.
The poet Algernon Charles Swinburne said, "More nauseous and foolish cant was never chattered than that which would deride the memory or depreciate the merits of Bowdler.
His sister Jane Bowdler (1743–1784) was a poet and essayist, and another sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler (Harriet) (1750–1830) collaborated with Bowdler on his expurgated Shakespeare.
The first recorded game to feature a double rook sacrifice was played between Bowdler (white) and H. Conway at London in 1788.