4.9 Peg [Margaret] Woffington (1714-1760). See next image.

Woffington was the great early love of Garrick and a mercurial actress. She began her successes as Ophelia and collapsed on stage in 1757 while speaking the Epilogue of As You Like It, after playing Rosalind, never to act again. She excelled in comedy and the latter kind of "breeches" part, in which, though a very pretty woman, she plausibly pretended to be a man - perhaps because she had a rather harsh voice.