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| | ON THE THEATRICAL ORIGIN OF THE EXPRESSION "GREEN ROOM" |
 | | GEORGE B. A common feature of theatres and even television studios throughout the Anglophone world is the green room, defined as "a room in a theatre provided for the accommodation of actors and actresses when not required on the stage. |
 | | If they were, one may hazard a guess that the choice of the color green may be related to the livery worn by members of one of the professional companies that after 1572 were required by law to be patronized by members of the nobility. |
 | | Actors, therefore, on special occasions wore the liveries, identifiable primarily by color, of the Lord Chamberlain (George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon), the Lord Admiral (Lord Charles Howard), the Earl of Leicester (Robert Dudley), the Earl of Derby (Ferdinando Stanley), the Earl of Pembroke (William Herbert), and others. |
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