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Jan. 22nd, 2013 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pensnestCan anyone think of a character, fictional or real, who condemned his own son(s) to death or some lesser punishment? Or, famously ordered his son into an undesirable marriage?
Why? Because there is a line in The Mikado about "the Lucius Junius Brutus of his race". Victorian gentlefolk would have understood the reference, by our audience won't any more than I did until I consulted various online references (just now). I wonder if there is a more modern, more likely-to-be-understood, reference I might use instead?
Any suggestions would be most gratefully received.
Why? Because there is a line in The Mikado about "the Lucius Junius Brutus of his race". Victorian gentlefolk would have understood the reference, by our audience won't any more than I did until I consulted various online references (just now). I wonder if there is a more modern, more likely-to-be-understood, reference I might use instead?
Any suggestions would be most gratefully received.
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Date: 2013-01-24 12:07 am (UTC)And yeah, Oedipus does bring up Other Matters, really.