Bowdler, T.

Japanese: Bowdler,T.(英語表記)BowdlerT
Bowdler, T.

...This kind of manipulation is called euphemism. Literature was the subject of the greatest damage from this social trend, and in 1818, even the complete works of Shakespeare were published under the title "Household Shakespeare" by Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), who arbitrarily deleted and altered parts that "a father would hesitate to read to his child, or a gentleman to his lady." Even in the 20th century, Joyce's "Ulysses" and D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" were banned, so it is easy to imagine what it was like in the intervening period.

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…It was so shameful to talk about sex that people put trousers on piano legs because they reminded them of women's legs, and used the word limbs instead of legs and bosom instead of breasts. Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825) tried to remove all sexual content from his publications, leading to the coinage of the word bowdlerize. The Family Shakespeare (1818) is a sex-free publication he edited. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Bowdler, T." is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…こうした操作を婉曲語法euphemismという。この社会的風潮で最も被害を受けたのは文学であって,シェークスピア全集までがバウドラーThomas Bowdler(1754‐1825)の手で〈父親が子どもに,紳士が淑女に読んで聞かせるのをはばかるような〉部分をかってに削除,改変されて《家庭用シェークスピア》の名で出版されたのは1818年のことであった。20世紀になってすら,ジョイスの《ユリシーズ》,D.H.ロレンスの《チャタレー夫人の恋人》が発禁処分を受けたのであるから,その間の時期がどうであったか,容易に想像がつく。…

【猥褻】より

…性を口にするのは恥ずべきこととされたので,女の脚を連想させるからといってピアノの脚にズボンをはかせたり,legs(脚)の代わりにlimbsを,breasts(乳房)の代わりにbosom(胸部)という単語を使ったほどである。ボウドラーThomas Bowdler(1754‐1825)は,出版物から性に関する部分をすべて削除しようとしたので,bowdlerize(わいせつ部分を削る)という新語ができた。《ファミリー・シェークスピア》(1818)は,彼が編集した性抜きの出版物である。…

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