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          He acted Lear to his Peggy's Cordelia at Drury.

        1. Peg Woffington.
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        3. Patmore also praises what was then thought to be a Hogarth portrait of Peg Woffington 'in that careful and highly finished style so rare in his pictures.
        4. Peg Woffington created a bold and passionate Lady Macbeth.

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          Margaret Woffington

          Woffington, Margaret, ("Peg Woffington,") a distinguished actress, was born in Dublin, 18th October Her father is said to have been a bricklayer, and her mother a laundress.

          Madame Volante, giving theatrical performances in Dublin, was attracted by the great beauty and grace of the child, and brought her out in a company of juvenile actors. When between seventeen and twenty years of age, she took Dublin by storm in the "Beggars' Opera," and charmed "all eyes and hearts with her beauty, grace, and ability in a range of characters from `Ophelia' to 'Sir Harry Wildair.' "In she went to London with a lover, who abandoned her, and after some difficulty she procured an engagement from Rich, the theatrical manager.

          Mr. Doran says: "She played night after night at Covent Garden, and London was enraptured with her. Her 'Lothario' was not so successful as her 'Sir Harry'; but her high-born ladies, her women of dash, spirit, and eleganc