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Old 04-18-2023, 01:19 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
If writers really start writing "down" everything, so that they don't somehow, somewhere, some way offend SOME person, we really are all doomed. It's bad enough that it's infested comedy, TV, movies...books, too? Et tu, Books?

Hitch
It's not new, though. In 1880 (or thereabouts) Henrik Ibsen rewrote the ending to A Doll's House for the German market, because he was told it would be too harsh if Nora left her husband and children.
Before that, while he was writing the play, he had planned to end the play with Nora staying with her family, but his wife Suzannah demanded that she should leave. After two weeks of quarreling, Suzannah said "Either Nora leaves, or I do!" and the rest is history

In the first half of 1800s, folklorists Asbjørnsen and Moe collected Norwegian folk tales. They then censored some of them heavily, because they didn't want to offend their readers with the sexual content of the original stories.

Molière's play Tartuffe (1664) was outlawed because it offended church officials.

I'm sure there are many, many more examples.
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