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Thomas Bowdler

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Thomas Bowdler, LRCP, FRS (11 July 1754 – 24 February 1825) was an English physician best known for publishing The Family Shakspeare, an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's work. [1]

60 relations: Ad usum Delphini, Algernon Charles Swinburne, American English, Bath, Somerset, Book size, Box, Wiltshire, British Library, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Censorship, Charles Lamb, Chess, Conington, Huntingdonshire, Doll Tearsheet, Draw (chess), Edward Gibbon, Elizabeth Stuart Bowdler, Expurgation, Fellow of the Royal Society, François-André Danican Philidor, Hamlet, Handicap (chess), Henrietta Maria Bowdler, Henry IV, Part 2, Henry Seymour Conway, Isle of Wight, Jane Bowdler, King Lear, List of chess games, Macbeth, Malta, Mary Lamb, Nahum Tate, Ophelia, Oystermouth, Patriottentijd, Physician, Poet laureate, Prison reform, Prostitution, Rook (chess), Royal College of Physicians, Royal Society, Sacrifice (chess), Somerset, Spa, Spelling of Shakespeare's name, Swansea, Tales from Shakespeare, The BMJ, ..., The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The Observer, Thomas Bowdler the Younger, Tragedy, University of Edinburgh, University of St Andrews, University of Wales, Lampeter, Wales, William Shakespeare, WorldCat. Expand index (10 more) »

Ad usum Delphini

Ad usum Delphini means "for the use of the Dauphin".

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Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic.

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American English

American English (AmE, AE, AmEng, USEng, en-US), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.

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Bath, Somerset

Bath is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, known for its Roman-built baths.

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Book size

The size of a book is generally measured by the height against the width of a leaf, or sometimes the height and width of its cover.

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Box, Wiltshire

Box is a large village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about west of Corsham and northeast of Bath.

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British Library

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and the largest national library in the world by number of items catalogued.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a university city and the county town of Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam approximately north of London.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Censorship

Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient" as determined by government authorities.

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Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847).

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Chess

Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.

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Conington, Huntingdonshire

Conington is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England.

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Doll Tearsheet

Doll Tearsheet is a fictional character who appears in Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part 2.

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Draw (chess)

In chess, a draw is the result of a game ending in a tie.

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Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon FRS (8 May 173716 January 1794) was an English historian, writer and Member of Parliament.

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Elizabeth Stuart Bowdler

Elizabeth Stuart Bowdler (d. 1797) was a religious writer.

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Expurgation

Expurgation, also known as bowdlerization, is a form of censorship which involves purging anything deemed noxious or offensive from an artistic work, or other type of writing of media.

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Fellow of the Royal Society

Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society judges to have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science".

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François-André Danican Philidor

François-André Danican Philidor (September 7, 1726 – August 31, 1795), often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lifetime, was a French composer and chess player.

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Hamlet

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602.

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Handicap (chess)

A handicap (or "odds") in chess is variant ways to enable a weaker player to have a chance of winning against a stronger one.

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Henrietta Maria Bowdler

Henrietta Maria Bowdler (1750–1830), commonly called Mrs.

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Henry IV, Part 2

Henry IV, Part 2 is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written between 1596 and 1599.

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Henry Seymour Conway

Field Marshal Henry Seymour Conway (1721 – 9 July 1795) was a British general and statesman.

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Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight (also referred to informally as The Island or abbreviated to IOW) is a county and the largest and second-most populous island in England.

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Jane Bowdler

Jane Bowdler (1743–1784) was an English poet and essayist, whose work gained popularity after her death.

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King Lear

King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.

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List of chess games

This is a list of notable chess games sorted chronologically.

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Macbeth

Macbeth (full title The Tragedy of Macbeth) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare; it is thought to have been first performed in 1606.

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Malta

Malta, officially known as the Republic of Malta (Repubblika ta' Malta), is a Southern European island country consisting of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Mary Lamb

Mary Ann Lamb (3 December 1764 – 20 May 1847), was an English writer.

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Nahum Tate

Nahum Tate (1652 – 30 July 1715) was an Irish poet, hymnist and lyricist, who became England's poet laureate in 1692.

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Ophelia

Ophelia is a character in William Shakespeare's drama Hamlet.

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Oystermouth

Oystermouth (a corruption of the Welsh name Ystum Llwynarth or Ystumllwynarth) is a village and electoral ward in the district of Mumbles, Swansea, Wales.

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Patriottentijd

The Patriottentijd (English: Patriot Period) was a period of political instability in the Dutch Republic between approximately 1780 and 1787.

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Physician

A physician, medical practitioner, medical doctor, or simply doctor is a professional who practises medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining, or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.

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Poet laureate

A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions.

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Prison reform

Prison reform is the attempt to improve conditions inside prisons, establish a more effective penal system, or implement alternatives to incarceration.

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Prostitution

Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment.

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Rook (chess)

A rook (♖,♜) is a piece in the strategy board game of chess.

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Royal College of Physicians

The Royal College of Physicians is a British professional body dedicated to improving the practice of medicine, chiefly through the accreditation of physicians by examination.

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Royal Society

The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, commonly known as the Royal Society, is a learned society.

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Sacrifice (chess)

In chess, a sacrifice is a move giving up a piece with the objective of gaining tactical or positional compensation in other forms.

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Somerset

Somerset (or archaically, Somersetshire) is a county in South West England which borders Gloucestershire and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east and Devon to the south-west.

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Spa

A spa is a location where mineral-rich spring water (and sometimes seawater) is used to give medicinal baths.

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Spelling of Shakespeare's name

The spelling of William Shakespeare's name has varied over time.

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Swansea

Swansea (Abertawe), is a coastal city and county, officially known as the City and County of Swansea (Dinas a Sir Abertawe) in Wales, UK.

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Tales from Shakespeare

Tales from Shakespeare is an English children's book written by brother and sister Charles and Mary Lamb in 1807.

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The BMJ

The BMJ is a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal.

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a six-volume work by the English historian Edward Gibbon.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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Thomas Bowdler the Younger

Thomas Bowdler the Younger (1782–1856) was an Anglican priest, who wrote a memoir of his father, John Bowdler, and his uncle, Thomas Bowdler the elder.

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Tragedy

Tragedy (from the τραγῳδία, tragōidia) is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in audiences.

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University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh (abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals), founded in 1582, is the sixth oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's ancient universities.

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University of St Andrews

The University of St Andrews (informally known as St Andrews University or simply St Andrews; abbreviated as St And, from the Latin Sancti Andreae, in post-nominals) is a British public research university in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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University of Wales, Lampeter

University of Wales, Lampeter (Prifysgol Cymru, Llanbedr Pont Steffan) was a university in Lampeter, Wales.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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WorldCat

WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories that participate in the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) global cooperative.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bowdler

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