Abstract
SWINBURNE (whose own Poems and Ballads many an intelligent and imaginative Victorian maiden dared not read) has stated, No man ever did better service Shakespeare than the man who made it possible put him into the hands of intelligent and imaginative He was speaking of Dr. Thomas Bowdler (M.D., Edinburgh, 1776), who also expurgated Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and selections from the Old Testament for the use of children. The word bowdlerize, meaning to expurgate by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate or offensive, has become a part of . . .
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