Expurgation
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title:
Expurgation
text:
An expurgation of a work, also known as a bowdlerization, fig-leaf edition or censorship by political correctness is a form of censorship that involves purging anything deemed noxious or offensive from an artistic work or other type of writing or media. The term bowdlerization is often used in the context of the expurgation of lewd material from books. The term derives from Thomas Bowdler's 1818 edition of William Shakespeare's plays, which he reworked in ways that he felt were more suitable for
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Form of censorship of artistic or other media works
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expurgation
date created:
2008-03-25T03:15:19Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T00:18:27Z
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