Elizabethanize

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.