- An
expurgation of a work, also
known as a
bowdlerization or fig-leaf edition, is a form of
censorship that
involves purging anything deemed noxious or...
-
sanitized edition in an
article for The
English Review entitled "Bowdler
Bowdlerised". In the
scathing and oft-sarcastic piece,
Whiteing utterly denounces...
- "g'schwindi" is a
dialect word
derived from "geschwind",
meaning "quickly". The
bowdlerised text of the
early printed editions reads:
Another semi-bowdlerized adaptation...
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Released as a single, "Not Now John", with its
chorus of "**** all that"
bowdlerised to "Stuff all that";
Melody Maker declared it "a
milestone in the history...
- and to the
excavations of
Calleva Atrebatum,
together with a full-size
bowdlerised replica of the
Bayeux Tapestry, an art collection, and
galleries relating...
-
There were once many such
street names in England, but all have now been
bowdlerised. In the city of York, for instance, Grap**** Lane—grāp is the Old English...
- performed, and when it did
appear it was
presented in one of
several bowdlerised versions.
After World War II it
regained a
place in the
standard operatic...
-
production company created a 50-minute children's
animated film from a
bowdlerised version of the story. A
musical adaptation was
written in 2004 by Kit...
- tale
contained within the
Introduction to the
Fourth Day. Tale IX.x is
bowdlerised, but
possibly because the
translator was
working from
faulty sources...
-
Goose rhymes. In the
early and mid-20th centuries, this was a form of
bowdlerisation,
concerned with some of the more
violent elements of
nursery rhymes...
