The Family Shakespeare, Volume One, the Comedies
Shakespeare, William / Sloan, Sam / Bowdler, Thomas The Family Shakespeare in Three 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.
The Family Shakespeare is one of the most famous works ever written. There is even a word introduced by it into the English language: "Bowdlerized". Most of the editorial changes by Thomas Bowdler were not so radical as has been commonly supposed. In many wa...