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Originally Posted by hildea
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. |
Oh, yes, and I'm sure that there
are many more examples--we've all known it to happen with trade-published books, too--but hopefully, not
en masse and not as some anticipatory kowtowing to people who may not even exist YET. To my mind, it's even
worse than the scrubbing happening with extant books.
As I said, it's endemic, everywhere we look. I was hoping that authors, at least, would try to stand on
some integrity, but given that comedians haven't, what the hell, why would I expect them to?
Hitch