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expurgate verb abridge, amend by removing, bowdlerize, cancel, censor, clean up, cleanse, cross out, cut, cut out, delete, depurate, efface, enforce censorship, erase, expunge, free from objectionable content, make better, purge, purify, strike out, suppress, weed
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abridge amend by removing blue-pencil cancel censor censure clean up cleanse conceal cross out cut cut out delete depurate diminish efface eliminate eradicate erase | Fragnito's "The Expurgatory Policy of the Church and the Works of Gasparo Contarini" succinctly discusses the evolving versions of the Index of Prohibited Books and the problems of expurgation when the Congregation of the Index, its staff, and helpers lacked the resources (and willpower) to correct suspended books as the range of subject matter scrutinized increased especially in the 1590s. To ask, as Dympna Callaghan does in her seminal essay, why if there were blacks were they not used on the Elizabethan stage, (18) is to confront the expurgatory regime of Shakespearean racial acting in which the black subject can be re-presented but not allowed to present itself. Grendler, "Gasparo Contarini and the University of Padua"; Marion Leathers Kuntz, "Venice and Justice: Saint Mark and Moses"; Silvana Seidel Menchi, "The Inquisitor as Mediator"; Gigliola Fragnito, "The Expurgatory Policy of the Church and the Works of Gasparo Contarini"; Elena Bonora, "The Heresy of a Venetian Prelate: Archbishop Filippo Mocenigo"; Anne Jacobson Schutte, "Legal Remedies for Forced Monachization in Early Modern Italy"; and John W. |
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