As Gertrude says to Hamlet, the death of fathers is common: "all that
lives must die, / passing through nature to eternity. Literature, like
life, is full of dead fathers.
So I am confused at why this death is a likely allusion--why would
Ferdinand bring up Oedipus?
Nancy
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