Monday, October 13, 2003

So, I don't know about you, but I've always heard the term bowdlerize with a negative connotation. Faithworks Press, publisher of scary nasty books, gives us these two titles, which it proudly calls "Shakespeare: rated G," and crows to the world have been bowdlerized. Hell, they're edited by the Thomas Fucking Bowdler.
In these books, for example, Ophelia's drowning is edited to be an accident.
So, then I went to the Faithworks page. I'm amused and a little sickened by the description of the book here. On the one hand, it's a true statement. On the other, ick.
It's part of my job to know what's coming out next year. It's part of my personality to be a little ill when it's icky.

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