elizabethanize

present singular third person elizabethanizes · participle present elizabethanizing · participle past elizabethanized · past elizabethanized

1. alternativeAlternative form of Elizabethanize.

   Both Waith and Holloway object to twentieth-century Shakespcares, and have done their best to elizabethanize themselves and us.

   2002, Allardyce Nicoll, Shakespeare Survey - Volume 16, page 157

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   In plot and characterization and the resulting significance of theme, his changes are the most vital; for here he undertook to humanize and to elizabethanize the story.

   1933, Paul Hazard, Fernand Baldensperger -, Revue de littérature comparée - Volume 13, page 349

   Brook explains his choices concerning the changes made at Bouffes du Nord as a desire to "elizabethanize" it: This dilapidated theatre is something which for me, creates conditions that are not at all an imitation of Elizabethan theatre but a real reflection of the possibilities offered by the Elizabethan theatre, because today this abandoned theatre is like a place at the same time neutral because it does not belong anymore to its tradition and, like the Elizabethan theatre, it is a place impregnated by life.”

   1992, Sarit Cofman, Mnouchkine, Kantor, Brook: Spacetime Theatre Arts, page 147

present singular third person Elizabethanizes · participle present Elizabethanizing · participle past Elizabethanized · past Elizabethanized · alternative elizabethanize · alternative Elizabethanise

1. To make more Elizabethan.

   Then after a fortnight's holiday the Players started to Elizabethanize their building.

   1923, Sheldon Cheney, Edith Juliet Rich Isaacs, Theatre Arts - Volume 7, page 210

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   Concerning the revival of the 16th-century stage, Bridges Adams once said to me that whilst it was possible to Elizabethanize your stage, it was impossible to Elizabethanize your audience.

   1955, Shakespeare Quarterly, page 89

   Moreover, the tendency to “Elizabethanize” the play Hamlet has made many of us think of its milieu as closely contemporary with the later years of Elizabeth I's reign.

   2015, Robert Rentoul Reed Jr., Crime and God's Judgment in Shakespeare, page 143