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Elizabethanize en · VERB

Etymology

From Elizabethan + -ize.

Meanings

1. To make more Elizabethan.
   • 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. 2015, Robert Rentoul Reed Jr., Crime and God's Judgment in Shakespeare, page 143:
   • Then after a fortnight's holiday the Players started to Elizabethanize their building. 1923, Sheldon Cheney, Edith Juliet Rich Isaacs, Theatre Arts - Volume 7, page 210:
   • 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. 1955, Shakespeare Quarterly, page 89:

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