elizabethanize

English

Verb

elizabethanize (third-person singular simple present elizabethanizes, present participle elizabethanizing, simple past and past participle elizabethanized)

1. Alternative form of Elizabethanize
   • 1933, Paul Hazard, Fernand Baldensperger -, Revue de littérature comparée - Volume 13, page 349:

     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.

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

     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.”

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

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