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Calvin Kline, and Shakespeare; The Conspiracy.
Nakedness and dress in Shakespeare’s King Lear, represented the status of a
character. Many scenes use clothing to show one characters dominance over another.
The more opulent the clothing, the higher the status, or the lack of clothing, the lower the
status. A few characters go through many wardrobes. Lear and Edgar, both start the
beginning of the play wearing expensive, luxurious clothing, but each at different times
wear less glorious clothing or even no clothing at all.
Lear who is the most powerful and authoritive character in the beginning of the
play, is also the best outfitted. Lear during the play, soils his clothing in storms, heaths,
battles, and other harsh elements. At the same time that his garments are lessening in
value, so is his level of power and status. Lear finds the bottom of the abyss he enters
when he, a fool, a beggar, and a madman have taken shelter in a hut from a storm. For
Lear to be in the company such as this, his status is near nothing. In order to show this
degeneration from high to low, Lear strips off all his clothing, showing he is now at the
very bottom of the social order. To have some clothes is to be someone, to have none is
to be nobody.
Edgar, legitimate son to the Earl of Gloucester, is well dressed, not as much as
Lear, but still above commoners. Edgar is believed to be plotting to annihilate his own
father. So every one is after someone named “Edgar”, who is a well dressed noble. In
order to protect himself, Edgar becomes no one. He becomes nobody by shedding his
noble garments, and disguises himself by, “My face I’ll grime with filth,/ Blanket my
loins, elf all my hair in knots,/ And with presented nakedness outface…” Now Edgar is
nobody, and there is nobody looking for nobody.
Edgar, wanting revenge on his bother, must take the status of somebody, so he
becomes a lunatic. Still needing protection, but also needing to be somebody, Edgar
chooses a person near nobody. The person he chooses is given in the line, ” Poor
Turlygod! poor Tom!/ That’s something yet! Edgar I nothing am.” Edgar becomes Tom
of Bedlam, an insane lunatic. Now that Edgar is somebody, he can once again mingle
with the other characters in the play. His first meeting with another character as Tom, is
Lear, who is reaching madness himself. By both Lear and Edgar being naked at the same
time allows Edgar to comfort the maddening Lear. The next entrance of Edgar is with
his father, Gloucester, who gives him better clothes to wear. Here is where Edgar
changes clothes and becomes of higher status, he is now a beggar. The last rise in status
for Edgar is his answer to the herald’s call for someone to challenge Edmund. Here
Edgar enters dressed and in armor, only those of semi-important status have armor.
Edgar knows that with his clothing come his noble rights for when asked who he is, he
answers, “Yet am I noble as the adversary…” Claiming that he is of the same noble status
as Edmund.
Nakedness and dress in Shakespeare’s King Lear, represents the social status of a
character. Numerous scenes use the apparel of the characters to claim dominance over
another. The more luxurious the clothing, the higher one is in the social status. Two
characters change both clothing and status simultaneously. Lear and Edgar, both start the
beginning of the play wearing very elegant clothing, but each at different times wear
disgracing clothing or even no clothing at all. King Lear demonstrates the theme,
“clothes make the man.”
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