Literary Term of the week by English Nectar
Bowdlerize is a literary term that is to delete from an edition of literary work some passages and texts considered by the editor to be indecent or indelicate or containing vulgarity.
The term is derived from the Reverened Thomas Bowlder, who edited Shakespeare and published his "Family Shakespeare" in 1818 intended for family reading. He said, "whatever is unfit to be read by a gentleman in a company of ladies" that has to be tidied up.
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver Travels (1726) ,The Arabian Nights and Shakespeare's plays are often bowlderized in editions intended for young readers..
Bowdlerize is a literary term that is to delete from an edition of literary work some passages and texts considered by the editor to be indecent or indelicate or containing vulgarity.
The term is derived from the Reverened Thomas Bowlder, who edited Shakespeare and published his "Family Shakespeare" in 1818 intended for family reading. He said, "whatever is unfit to be read by a gentleman in a company of ladies" that has to be tidied up.
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver Travels (1726) ,The Arabian Nights and Shakespeare's plays are often bowlderized in editions intended for young readers..
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