Reconciliation in David Garrick's Harlequin's Invasion and Cymbeline

This article suggests that as a precursor to David Garrick's faithful adaptation of Cymbeline, he wrote a satirical rumination on its amalgamation of history and fantasy, titled Harlequin's Invasion, in which Shakespeare, figuratively speaking, dons Harlequin's mask. Harlequin's Invasion's ironic reversals celebrate the pleasurable astonishment of the nearness of difference and attempt a neighborly threefold reconciliation: of the genres of comedy and drama, of the body's passions and humors, and of the warring French and British.