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… respectable sociability, and capitalising on their commercial value, as they would attract a more diverse clientele. The celebrity of female players was also the focus of new debates. Performers such as Elizabeth Barry and Anne Bracegirdle … Wit and Morality in the Restoration Comedy of Manners, Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1994. 11 . On the issue of celebrity, see for example B. Cowan, ‘News, Biography, and Eighteenth-Century Celebrity’, Oxford Handbooks Online, 1 September 2016 (DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935338.013.132 accessed 13 December …
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