bowdlerization

plural bowdlerizations · alternative Bowdlerisation · alternative bowdlerisation · alternative Bowdlerization

1. countableuncountableThe action or instance of bowdlerizing; the omission or removal of material considered vulgar or indecent.

   Synonyms: expurgation

plural Bowdlerizations

1. countableuncountableAlternative letter-case form of bowdlerization.

   Translator notes that for Bowdlerizations and deletions the publishers are responsible.

   1970, “Bithell, Jethro, sel. and tr. Contemporary French Poetry. […]”, in George B. Parks, Ruth Z. Temple, editors, The Romance Literatures (The Literatures of the World in English Translation: A Bibliography; III), part 2 (French Literature), New York, N.Y.: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., →ISBN, section “French Literature, General”, subsection “Nineteenth Century”, subsubsection “Collections”, page 235

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   We have had adaptations of Dickens and Scott, and even George Eliot, for children, and Bowdlerizations of the Arabian Nights and the popular fairy tales.

   1903 November 21, “The Pestiferous Emasculation”, in Theodore F. Bonnet, editor, Town Talk, San Francisco, Calif.: Town Talk Publishing Co., page 7, column 1

   For other Bowdlerizations and deletions the publishers and their editor are responsible.

   1912, Jethro Bithell, “Note”, in Contemporary French Poetry. Selected and Translated […] (The Canterbury Poets), London; […]: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd., page lxxxi

   Part II begins with discussions on doubling of roles, Bowdlerizations, theatre promptbooks, actor-adapters, male domination, repertory companies, copying errors in collation, and detail of methodology.

   1986, “Halstead, William P., comp. Statistical History of Acting Editions of Shakespeare. […]”, in James A. Moore, compiler, Richard III: An Annotated Bibliography (The Garland Shakespeare Bibliographies, 11; Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 425), New York, N.Y.; London: Garland Publishing, Inc., section “Influence; Adaptations; Parodies; Synopses”, page 766

   (re hymnal revisions - or Bowdlerizations, if you like) I believe the Episcopalians are also dropping Onward Christian Soldiers because of its militarism.

   1988 May, John Boardman, “Counterpoint”, in APA-Filk, number 38, Brooklyn, N.Y., page 4

   But just as Bowdlerizations of Shakespeare seem, from a late twentieth-century perspective, to have lost something essential to the genius of the original, so nineteenth-century alterations to The Garden of the Soul may seem to us to have damaged the integrity of Challoner’s message.

   1995, Mary Heimann, “Familiar Prayers”, in Catholic Devotion in Victorian England (Oxford Historical Monographs), Oxford, Oxon: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 86