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Edgar's nakedness

to Lear's royal robes

to the Fool's coxcomb

This led to our conclusion that:

Consider him well.—Thou owest the worm

no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool,

the cat no perfume. Ha! Here’s three on ’s are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man

is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal

as thou art. Off, off, you lendings! Come. Unbutton here.

Kent: No, do not.

For confirmation that I am much more

Than my out-wall,

Lear:...Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy’s straw does pierce it.

IN CONCLUSION

King Lear

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Arriving at the Thesis

Shakespeare's usage of clothing and disguise in King Lear was nothing short of effective.

Many factors and references was taken into consideration to generate our thesis. Everything from:

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Clothing and disguise

are used to represent

changing social status.

ACT IV, Scene vi, 163-166

Act III, Scene 44-45,

In “Disguise in King Lear: Kent and Edgar,” a scholarly journal by Hugh Maclean, he discusses “Disguise in Elizabethan drama [to be] ‘the substitution, overlaying or metamorphosis of dramatic identity, whereby one character sustains two roles; this may involve deliberate or involuntary masquerade, mistaken or concealed identity, madness or possession’” (Maclean 49).

ACT III, Scene iv, 101-106

ACT II, Scene iii, 6-12

Thesis

Edgar: ...I will preserve myself; and am bethought

To take the basest and most poorest shape

That ever penury, in contempt of man,

Brought near to beast. My face I’ll grime

with filth, Blanket my loins, elf all my

hair in knots, And with presented

nakedness out-face The winds and

persecutions of the sky

ACT I, Scene iv, 1-7

Kent: If but as well I other accents borrow,

That can my speech diffuse, my good intent

May carry through itself to that full issue

For which I razed my likeness. Now, banished Kent,

If thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemned,

So may it come, thy master, whom thou lovest,

Shall find thee full of labours.

The social decline of characters in King Lear, is shown through the disguise and clothing if characters. The changes in appearance of these characters are symbolic of their falls from grace and descent in the social hierarchy.

Ladies and Gentlemen...prepare yourselves for our

re-enactment.

How:

Why:

What:

clothing and disguise is representative of social decline

Whenever a characters social status suffers a sudden decline, it is evident in their appearance.

Symbol Presentation: Clothing and Disguise

Khrystal Sturridge & Nyesha Hudson

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