Elizabethanise

Synonyms for "elizabethanise"

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It is a pity, but it appears to have been inevitable; for to be poet and Englishman, and not to Elizabethanise to the extent of at least a five-act 'tragedy' is to be unworthy the name of English poet.

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Orie Latham Hatcher's handbook, Shakespeare Plays and Pageants, not only suggests how a pageant-master might Elizabethanise the landscape with a fair ('any available stream may serve as the Avon and furnish pleasure boats for the people') and how to build a replica Birthplace, but how to embellish a replica of Anne Hathaway's Cottage with a suitable garden: 'with proper forethought there might even be some of the old English garden flowers popular in Shakespeare's time, growing outside the door'.

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Durrell's ambition not merely to 'Elizabethanise' but also to 'get modern literature back to Rabelais – out of the mind and back into the belly” recalls the 'freaks' of Volpone – parasite, dwarf, eunuch and hermaphrodite – and the combination, in The Alchemist, of farce and intellect.

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