“King Lear”에 나타난 복식 이미져리 研究

A Study of Clothing Imagery in “King Lear”

The aim of this article is to make a better stage costume by reviewing and analyzing that of King Lear by Adrian Noble with applying clothing imagery to this play. In a way of research, the clothing imagery is to be studied at first, and then, with it being compared the clothes actually worn by Adrian Noble. The clothes in King Lear represent the values of society, of status quo, of an socially conceived external morality, while nakedness is the traditional image of unadorned truth. The madness of King Lear and the lost of throne is shown in nakedness by taking off King’s clothes one by one. In Edar’s case, the process of restoring his positions and regaining his identity was revealed in taking a better clothes. The rise of status in Edmund was symbolized by changing from commons to more gorgeous clothes. The stage costume of King Lear at Stratford in 1993 is limited in use of ornaments and colors, and transformed into a very simple one, and also designed to easily understand the personal relationship by attaching main colors to similar personality group. In the early part, the costume of Lear was changed from formal suits of shirts, veste and trousers and coat to shirts, veste and trousers, and he was falled into a distressful mental state with his button of veste opened, and thereby he was in wearing only shirts and trousers by stripping veste. Eventually Lear go in madness by being decorated with weeds with buttons of shirts opened. This corresponds with thr dramatic meaning that Lear gains his mental awareness while undergoing materialistic loss. The clothes of Edgar was formal suits of shirts, trousers, veste and coat as he was a noble, and he was in a state of wearing only branket when disguised as a poor Tom. When disguised as a farmer he was wearing only ragged trousers and long shirts and was same in clothes as a knight. This seems that the process of wearing a clothes of knight was treated as suggestive and abridged in showing the play. The clothing imagery of King Lear by Adrian Noble showed simple and modern styled clothes, contrasted with that of Shakespearean period. And it corresponds with the dramatic meaning basically. This play also shows a production technique that was planed to express the suggestive imagery without change of clothes by a abridged production technique and therby deliver the intention of Shakespeare to the spectators.