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Green Room
Green Room, after the Restoration in 1660, a room behind the stage in which actors and actresses gathered before and after the performance to chat or to entertain their friends. It has almost disappeared from the modern English theatre, but still exists in a modified form at Drury Lane. The first reference to it occurs in Shadwell's A True Widow (1678) and it is mentioned in Colley Cibber's Love Makes a Man (1700). It seems probable that it got its name simply because it was hung or painted in green. It was also known as the Scene Room, a term later applied to a room where scenery was stored, and it has been suggested that ‘green’ is a corruption of ‘scene’. In the larger early English theatres there was sometimes more than one green room; they were then strictly graded according to the salary of the player, who could be fined for presuming to use a green room above his rank.
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Green Room." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Green Room." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-GreenRoom.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Green Room." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-GreenRoom.html |
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green room • n. a room in a theater or studio in which performers can relax when they are not performing. |
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"green room." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "green room." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-greenroom.html "green room." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-greenroom.html |
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"green room." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "green room." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-greenroom.html "green room." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-greenroom.html |
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