Elizabethanise

English

Verb

Elizabethanise (third-person singular simple present Elizabethanises, present participle Elizabethanising, simple past and past participle Elizabethanised)

1. Alternative form of Elizabethanize
   • 1891, Twenty Modern Men, from the National Observer, page 4:

     It is a pity, but it appears to have been inevitable; for to be poet and Englishman, and not to Elizabethanise to the extent of at least a five-act 'tragedy' is to be unworthy the name of English poet.

   • 2015, Clara Calvo, Coppélia Kahn, Celebrating Shakespeare:

     Orie Latham Hatcher's handbook, Shakespeare Plays and Pageants, not only suggests how a pageant-master might Elizabethanise the landscape with a fair ('any available stream may serve as the Avon and furnish pleasure boats for the people') and how to build a replica Birthplace, but how to embellish a replica of Anne Hathaway's Cottage with a suitable garden: 'with proper forethought there might even be some of the old English garden flowers popular in Shakespeare's time, growing outside the door'.

   • 2016, Richard Pine, Lawrence Durrell: The Mindscape, page 311:

     Durrell's ambition not merely to 'Elizabethanise' but also to 'get modern literature back to Rabelais – out of the mind and back into the belly” recalls the 'freaks' of Volpone – parasite, dwarf, eunuch and hermaphrodite – and the combination, in The Alchemist, of farce and intellect.