Gorboduc

Gorboduc

▪ mythical king of Britain
      a mythical king of ancient Britain and the subject of the earliest English tragic play in blank verse, Gorboduc, by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville (Sackville, Thomas, 1st earl of Dorset), which was first performed in January 1561.

       Geoffrey Of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae (1135–38; History of the Kings of Britain) relates the dispute between Gorboduc's two sons, Ferrex and Porrex, over who would succeed him as king. In Norton and Sackville's play, which is derived from Geoffrey's account, Gorboduc is a good ruler who gives his kingdom away during his lifetime to his sons. The sons quarrel, and Porrex, the younger, kills Ferrex. Gorboduc's queen avenges the death of her more-beloved older son by murdering Porrex. Gorboduc and his queen are murdered in turn by his horrified former subjects.

      One of the earliest English tragedies on a Senecan model (see Senecan tragedy), Gorboduc is a blend of English and Classical elements. It ignores the unities of time and place and adds non-Classical dumb shows before each act, but it employs Classic formalities such as chorus and messenger. Gorboduc was published in 1565 with printing errors and in better form in 1570 as The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex.

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