alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
break in, break - make submissive, obedient, or useful; "The horse was tough to break"; "I broke in the new intern"
domesticate, tame - make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans; "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog"
By having the characters confront those questions of authority, faith, and passion such as were relevant to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russia, these plays domesticize Shakespeare's narrative, as well as the French intermediaries by means of which the Russian playwrights accessed that narrative.
Just as in the case of actions, the child's emotions in the discourse of the knowledge society must be intentional and defendable through reasoning; feelings become skills, possible to domesticize and measure.