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==Background== |
==Background== |
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| − | '''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', Honourable East India Company clerk for the last twelve years. Godders has witnessed all words exchanged at formal Company meetings, recording everything but those words spoken under a raised hand.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5ggGXQ5yhVw64hJw077jmVs/cast-and-characters BBC One - Taboo Cast & Characters] </ref> |
+ | "'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', Honourable East India Company clerk for the last twelve years. Godders has witnessed all words exchanged at formal Company meetings, recording everything but those words spoken under a raised hand."<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5ggGXQ5yhVw64hJw077jmVs/cast-and-characters BBC One - Taboo Cast & Characters] </ref> |
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Godfrey is briefly seen at his desk during the extraordinary meeting of the East India Company's Desk, but Sir Strange motioned do not write down what was said during the meeting. {{Crossref|Episode 5}} |
Godfrey is briefly seen at his desk during the extraordinary meeting of the East India Company's Desk, but Sir Strange motioned do not write down what was said during the meeting. {{Crossref|Episode 5}} |
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Revision as of 16:13, 12 February 2017
Michael Godfrey, nicknamed Godders, is a recurring character in the FX original drama Taboo, portrayed by Edward Hogg.
Background
"Michael Godfrey, Honourable East India Company clerk for the last twelve years. Godders has witnessed all words exchanged at formal Company meetings, recording everything but those words spoken under a raised hand."[1]
Appearance and Personality
Michael Godfrey is a sensitive and shy young man, with a calm voice that betrays a certain fear of the world around him. Godfrey is lanky, with fair complexion, green eyes and wavy brown hair. He hides his homosexuality, illegal at the time, trying to find acceptance in squalid brothels where he wears women's clothes, and a wig.
History
Michael Godfrey attended, as a clerk at the meeting at the headquarters of the East India Company in London when attorney Robert Thoyt put the order aware of the return of James Delaney. Later, when the latter was invited by the Society for an informal meeting to discussion about Deaney's legacy, Godfrey and Delaney exchanged a fleeting glance. (Shovels and Keys)
During one of the meetings, Godfrey was invited by Sir Strange to read the topics the agenda when the members of the company proved to be unaware of the reasons for the meeting had not been paying attention. The young man obeyed immediately, albeit hesitantly. (Episode 2)
Dressed in women's clothes, Godders witnessed a pantomime in a brothel for men only, rejecting the attentions of a couple of customers claiming to be already reserved. Is just after he refused yet another costumer that Godders saw James Delaney on the threshold of the room; Terrified, he sought refuge in the adjoining bedroom where a rich man was being spanked by a cross-dressing prostitute. James followed Godders just in time to lure the young clerk in a more secluded spot. The two fleetingly remembered their past friendship at the seminary, when Godders was secretly in love with him. Unfazed by this, James offered Godders a pound a week if he had reported to him all the plans of East India Company. Godders was hesitant, afraid of what might have happened if he had been discovered, but Delaney was able to persuade him. (Episode 3)
Godfrey was visited by James in search of information, and the young man adjourned Delaney about trafficking of gunpowder. Holding hands, Godfrey expressed concern about what the Crown and the East India Company would do to those around James, in retaliation. James dismissed Godfrey's concerns, insulting him. (Episode 4)
Godfrey is briefly seen at his desk during the extraordinary meeting of the East India Company's Desk, but Sir Strange motioned do not write down what was said during the meeting. (Episode 5)
Having discovered that James had been betrayed by one of his, Godfrey rushed to Delaney Mansion to inform his friend, but James told him to go home so they were not seen together. Following the destruction of James' ship, James became enraged with Godfrey because of such a move of the Company, even pointing a knife at his throat at the brothel, leaving the lad scared before going away furiously. (Episode 6)
Memorable Quotes
- Godders: You know, at the seminary, I was in love with you. Of course you do.
- James Delaney: And there was I thinking that we were just brothers in arms. Didn’t we share a bed sometimes in the great hall?
- Godders: It was torture. Exquisite.
- ― Remembering old school time
Images
Appearances
- Season 1
Notes
- He feels an unrequited love for James Delaney.