Elizabethanize

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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.