The Court And the London Theatres During the Reign of Elizabeth
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The Eliza- bethan word 'room' for a theatre box held a memory of these spaces next the rooms of the old inns. " The word "room" how- ever, is a pretty general term ; and it is not the only word used in Elizabethan times for the boxes in the theatres. It is perhaps worth while to remark, too, that these spaces next the rooms of inns were not so similar to theatre boxes or "stalls" as were the partitions, '^Oal. State Papers, Venetian, 1520-6, p. 32. <»Ibid. , p. 42. '" Camb. Hist. Eng. Lit. , VI..., p. 283. ^^Camh. Hist. Eng. Lit. , VI, p. 284. 72 Development of Shakespeare, p. 68. THE INN- YARDS AND THE EARLY THEATRES 47 sections, or compartments, for instance, constructed in the ban- queting-houses and scaffolded lialls, '^ where spectators were ar- ranged according to rank or nationality. It is possible, too, that these sections arranged for spectators were called "rooms" (i. E. , places) at an early date. An old writer, for example, describing the elaborately arranged hall at Westminster on the occasion of Prince Arthur's marriage in 1501, remarks: "And in this fore- said place when the King and the Queen had taken their noble seates under their Clothes of estate and euery other nobles were ordered in their Roomes worshipful and Convenient then began and Entered this most goodly and pleasant disgusing, ' ■* " etc.
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