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theatricalize, v.|θiːˈætrɪkəlaɪz|
[f. theatrical + -ize.]
1. trans. To make or render theatrical.
1778F. Burney Diary Sept., I shall occasionally theatricalize my dialogues. 1899Westm. Gaz. 2 June 2/1 The scene in which the unhappy hero has his epaulettes..torn from him, and his sword broken, though a little too ‘theatricalised’, is really very moving. 1909Daily Chron. 9 Sept. 5/3 As Lamb has said, any attempt to theatricalise the grandeur of Shakespeare's conception must fail.
2. intr.
a. To act on the stage.
b. To attend or frequent theatrical performances.
1794Coleridge Lett., to Southey (1895) 86 It is an Ipswich Fair time, and the Norwich company are theatricalizing. 1833E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 20 He and I have been theatricalizing lately. We saw an awful Hamlet the other night.
Hence theˌatricaliˈzation, the process of making theatrical; dramatization; also fig.
1875Howells Foregone Concl. iii, Ferris was an uncompromising enemy of the theatricalisation of Italy. 1890Judy 1 Oct. 160/1 Ravenswood, as Herman Merivale calls his dramatization, or theatricalization, of the story of ‘The Bride of Lammermoor’. |