elizabethanize

Example Sentences

• "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."