Gorboduc
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Gorboduc, or Ferrex and Porrex, one of the earliest of English tragedies, of which the first three acts are by Thomas Norton (1532–84) and the last two by T.
Sackville. It was acted in the Inner Temple Hall on Twelfth Night 1561. The play is constructed on the model of a Senecan tragedy, and the subject is taken from the legendary chronicles of Britain. Gorboduc and Videna are king and queen, Ferrex and Porrex are their two sons, and the dukes of Cornwall, Albany, Logres, and Cumberland are the other chief characters. Ferrex and Porrex quarrel over the division of the kingdom. Ferrex is killed by Porrex, and Porrex is murdered in revenge by his mother. The duke of Albany tries to seize the kingdom and civil war breaks out. There is no action on the stage, the events being narrated in blank verse. The legend of Gorboduc is told by
Geoffrey of Monmouth, and figures in Spenser's
Faerie Queene (
ii. x. 34 and 35), where Gorboduc is called Gorbogud.
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