GIVING ADVICE AND COUNSEL TO KINGS IN TUDOR DRAMA

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paper of 7 to 8 pages, including a Works Cited Page. The paper should follow the MLA format. The paper must examine in a substantive way at least two works of drama that we study in the course of the semester. The Works Cited Page of the final paper must have at least four sources, and one of them should be a source that you find in independent research that you perform on the topic. GIVING ADVICE AND COUNSEL TO KINGS IN TUDOR DRAMA How do advice or counsel function in the narratives of Gorboduc, The Play of the Weather, and The Enterlude of Godly Queene Hester? With respect to Gorboduc, Edmund Creeth writes that The second dumb show and chorus do not let us fail to draw the moral from the three parallel scenes in which Gorboduc, Ferrex, and Porrex each listens to wise and unwise counsel. A Prince should accept sound counsel however retrograde to his desires and see flattery for what it is. (xxxix) Present your own reading of the significance that giving and accepting advice have in the narratives of Gorboduc and The Play of the Weather or The Enterlude of Godly Queene Hester. (We read these plays on Tuesday, Oct 13th, Thursday, Oct. 15th, Thursday, Sept. 24th, and Thursday, Oct. 8th). Use secondary sources to indicate the cultural significance that advising a head of state may have had for the audiences to whom these plays were addressed or, in the case of Gorboduc, for those who wrote the play. http://www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/gorboduc.html