Elizabethanize

English

Alternative forms

• elizabethanize, Elizabethanise

Etymology

From Elizabethan +‎ -ize.

Verb

Elizabethanize (third-person singular simple present Elizabethanizes, present participle Elizabethanizing, simple past and past participle Elizabethanized)

1. To make more Elizabethan.
   • 1923, Sheldon Cheney, Edith Juliet Rich Isaacs, Theatre Arts - Volume 7, page 210:

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

   • 1955, Shakespeare Quarterly, page 89:

     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.

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

     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.