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TABLE OF CONTENIS
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS... 1... ee eee 7
INTRODUCTION: KING LEAR—A DRAMATIZED EARLY MODERN
MIRROR OF GOVERNANCE ........................ eee... 9
King Lear Historicized: The Jacobean Context ................... 14
Three Philological Approaches and Their Academic Precedents......... 17
THE DRAMATURGICAL AND THEATRICAL HERITAGE: A CONTRASTIVE
READING OF MAGNYFYCENCE, KING LEIRAND KINGLEAR ............ 21
Conceptual Similarities: Theatrical Mirrors of Governance ........... 25
The Distribution of Characters: The Good and the Bad, and
the Role ofJesters ......................,......,..... 31
Recurring Dramaturgical Elements ......................... 38
RHETORICAL AND POETICAL CONVENTIONS: SHAKESPEARE’S ARTE OF
POESY IN THE LOVE CONTEST AND THE MOCK TRIAL SCENES ......... 51
Shakespeare and The Arte of English Poesie . .................... 53
Decency of Public Speech: The Love Contest Scene ................ 55
Decency of Courtly Behavior: The Mock Trial Scene ............... 76
THE INFLUENCE OF EARLY MODERN THEORIES OF GOVERNANCE:
CORPOREAL IMAGES AND THE REPRESENTATION OF THE BODY POLITIC
IN THE 1608 QUARTO .................................. 87
Corporeal Images in Early Modern Theories of Governance ........... 89
The Presence of the Body Politic in the 1608 King Lear Quarto ......... 90
The Disintegration of King Lear’s Body Politic................... 94
CONCLUSION ......:.............................:.. 115
Works CITED....................................:. 117
Primary Sources. .................................. 117
Secondary Sources ................................. 119