Tragic carpet
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A tragic carpet, according to the Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre, is the green cloth that was spread on the stage in seventeenth century plays for the actors to "die" on so they would not dirty their clothes.[1]
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- ^ Oxford University Press, 1979. (p. 559)
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