Schillerize

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English

Etymology

From Schiller +‎ -ize after Friedrich Schiller.

Verb

Schillerize (third-person singular simple present Schillerizes, present participle Schillerizing, simple past and past participle Schillerized)

  1. To interpret or adapt based on the moral and aesthetic philosophy of Friedrich Schiller.
    • 1971, Atti Del IIo Congresso Internazionale Di Studi Verdiani, page 67:
      Thus Costa gave a lead to all those adapters who have laboured to over-Schillerize the opera, and to eliminate Charles V from it. '
    • 1979, M. Benn, The Drama of Revolt, page 97:
      In 1859 he advises Lassalle to 'Shakespearize' rather than to “Schillerize'. Shakespeare he regards as the supreme poet of the modern world; Schiller seems to him aesthetically unsound and counter-revolutionary.
    • 2014, Paul McQuillan Martin de Man, Paul De Man Notebooks, page 260:
      My intention is not to use Schiller as some kind of fall-guy – there is not a text written today which is not Schillerized.