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… Jeremy Collier could write, ‘whether the Trade of an Actor be a lawful Trade or not, I’m sure ‘tis not a Trade of good Reputation,’ 18 by the late 1700s, actors like Garrick and Siddons were able to mobilize respectable domestic ideology … contact with genteel society within Drury Lane Theatre and increased media representation of the theatre transmuted the reputations of individual actors and the acting profession from questionable to admirable. 18 . Jeremy Collier, A …
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