The topic of this tragedy—the political resistance of Godwin
and his family against the supposedly effete, priest-ridden, and Frenchified government of Edward the Confessor
,
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was politically risky in revolutionary times.
Godwin, father of...
Textual Features
Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
The first volume packs in many historical or semi-historical events. Earl Godwin
murders Ethelred
's son Alfred Ætheling
at Guildford Castle; Henry I
's only legitimate son and heir dies by drowning in 1120...