Who would ever dream of censoring Shakespeare? Despite being beloved in his own time and continuing to be admired into the present day, not everyone has been as appreciative of the Bard's words as you might expect.
As our senior specialist, Adam Douglas, explains here, there have been some individuals that have seen it to themselves to make "improvements" to certain passages in Shakespeare's plays that they have disagreed with. We have a prime example of such slapdash censorship with this passage from Hamlet in a Second Folio.
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