At the play's beginning, the argument gives the following summary of the play's action: "Gorboduc, King of Britain, divided his realm in his lifetime to his sons, Ferrex and Porrex. The sons fell to dissention. The younger killed the elder. The mother that more dearly loved the elder, for revenge killed the younger. The people, moved with the cruelty of the fact, rose in rebellion and slew both father and mother. The nobility assembled and most terribly destroyed the rebels. And afterward for want of issue of the prince, whereby the succession of the crown became uncertain, they fell to civil war in which both they and many of their issues were slain, and the land for a long time almost desolate and miserably wasted."
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{{cite book|author=Norton, Thomas |date=1970 |title=Gorboduc; or, Ferrex and Porrex |url=https://archive.org/details/gorboducorferrex00nort |publication-place=Lincoln |publisher=University of Nebraska |isbn=0-8032-0288-1 |lccn=74088095 |oclc=94497 |ol=5074482M}}