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SHAKESPEARE’S ART OF POESY IN KING LEAR hang thy medicin on my lips, / And let this kis repaire those violent harmes that my two sisters / Haue in thy reverence made.”'”® When undergoing treatment, the protagonist in both plays receives a new garment as a sign of his recovery. In the moral interlude, Redress presents Magnyfycence with a new “abylyment,”’” and in King Lear, a Gentleman informs Cordelia and Kent that they “put fresh garments” on her father.” Leir also receives a new dress in The True Chronicle Historie, but only because he should pay some fare to the mariners to take him to France, and instead of money, they accept his robe.?°! The chart below offers a summary of the findings of my contrastive Magnyfycence King Leir King Lear 5 stage letters (content Several messages not disclosed) 8 stage letters 3 messages 2 read on stage: 1 forged letter 1 replacement of letters: |- Edmund’s forged letter Letters (content not Cornwall's letter to Leir | on Edgar’s behalf to disclosed) — Gonorill’s letter to Gloster Ragan - Gonorill’s letter to Ragan’s letter ordering Edmund urging to kill Leir’s murder Albany the attribute of . . Edmund’s disguise . Gallian king and courtly vices u: (verbally marked) ut . Mumford as pilgrims Disguise |(visuallyand . Kent, Edgar as beggars (visually and verbally . verbally marked) (visually and verbally marked) marked) B rs Magnyfycence | Leir himself becomes a Lear meets Edgar in the “868 meets Poverty beggar guise of Poor Tom Mischief Suicid gives a knife comic suicide attempt: Attemr t and halter to - Gloster at the cliffs of emp Magnyfycence Dover to stab himself Goodhope Doctor as a character and Redress Cordelia described Recoveries bring medicine _ asa doctor bringing and anew medicine “abylyment” to Lear receives “fresh Magnyfycence garments” = 200 201 « 48 «+
