Thomas Bowdler was an 18th Century Englishman who is remembered for his highly censored or expurgated renditions of various classic works of literature, including both Shakespeare’s plays and “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” Bowdler’s work is not remembered in a particularly glowing light, as everything he touched was watered-down, cleaned-up, and purged of most of its character in the name of protecting the sensibilities of children and/or pre-Victorian women whose over-tight corsets caused them to pass-out at the merest mention of sex, violence, or God’s name taken in vain. Political Correctness to this very day owes its existence to people like Bowdler, whose name lives on in the term ‘bowdlerization,’ which has become synonymous with expurgatory censorship in ... |
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