Thomas Bowdler is best-remembered for being the credited author of The Family Shakespeare, a book first published in 1807.
88 months ago

The only old murder ballad I just can't abide is Down in the Willow Garden. In that song, the girl is poisoned, stabbed, and drowned.
103 months ago

Bowdler's Day is celebrated on July 11, the birthday of the physician and philanthropist who published a censored edition of Shakespeare's works, Thomas...
41 months ago

Bowdler, Anthony 10/16/1928 - 3/1/2021 Ann Arbor Anthony John Bowdler ("Tony"), age 92, of Ann Arbor, Michigan passed away on Monday,...
45 months ago

The ancient Catholic world was rich, colorful, and full of ritual and rumbustiousness. It was the culture of the rough and tumble,...
88 months ago

Few literary reputations have suffered as great a reversal as that of Thomas Bowdler, and even fewer so deservedly. The “family” edition of...
21 months ago

Irate Americans are arming themselves and heading to library board meetings to defend children against evil by insisting that the library remove books that...
26 months ago

There are some who complain that America has gone woke—but when has it not been? The woke mob (Puritans) have been canceling (executing)...
12 months ago

Religion News Service columnist Mark Silk responds to Utah school district banning the Bible from grade schools and middle schools.
18 months ago

Euphemism means substituting a favorable expression for a more accurate or possibly offensive one. Literally, it means “fair of speech.”
102 months ago