How to pronounce“expurgate”in English
flowering of art and culture and awesomeness? Well, here they are. Today we're gonna be talking about objections to theatre in Renaissance England and how the theaters eventually closed. But good news,
they reopen two decades later with smutty comedy and expurgated Shakespeare and also women on stage sometimes wearing pants. What a time to have been alive.
As you remember from our episodes on classical theater, Puritans didn't invent hating on theater, a phenomenon we call anti- theatricalism. Boo, hiss.
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Definitions of “expurgate”
To edit out (incorrect, offensive, or otherwise undesirable information) from a book or other publication; to cleanse; to purge.
“The publisher decided to expurgate the love scene from the book, to make it more child-friendly.”
To undertake editing out incorrect, offensive, or otherwise undesirable information from (a book or other publication); to cleanse; to purge.
“The publisher decided to expurgate the book, which meant removing the love scene.”
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