Meaning of Elizabethanize | Babel Free

Definitions

To make more Elizabethan.

Examples

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.””

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

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