Podcasts about thersites

Professor Liz Oakley-Brown returns to the pod to discuss the play Thersites (c.1537) attributed to Nicholas Udall and based on a dialogue by from Joannes Ravisius Textor - the play features a snail fight, and much more - part of our build up to our season of Henrician drama. This episode was recorded live on zoom on Tuesday 10th June at 7.15pm 2025. For more on the medieval manuscript side of things - over on BBC Sounds (where available) is Knight Fights Giant Snail. We reference Marie Axton's Three Tudor Classical Interludes which is the only modern edition of the play that we are aware of. We will be staging Thersites live on Sunday 22nd June 2025 at the Quay Theatre - tickets for the show are available here. But if that's not possible we have two exploring sessions online - a vanilla First Look, and a super charged Second Look. CW: We keep this fairly Universal, but towards the end we do discuss a death. Entertaining Henry is a co-production with The Quay Theatre and Beyond Shakespeare... Let us take you through a whistle-stop tour of the entertainment world from Henry's reign: from his youthful days to his more fractious later life, we will share the history of his reign through the plays he and his subjects enjoyed. Play along with our Tudor Bingo Card, catch the pop-up merry tales, and enjoy entertainments fit for a king! Friday 20th June at 7.30pm Show 1 - Welcome to Henry's Court! (1509 to 1520's) We welcome you to the Court of the newly-crowned King Henry! Let us introduce you to all the major players on and off stage, the rules of the court, and perform some of the earliest plays to survive from his reign – plays designed to curb Henry's boisterous ways. https://quaysudbury.com/events/entertaining-henry-show-1-welcome-to-henrys-court/ Saturday 21st June at 7.30pm Show 2 - Reformation: More vs Cromwell (1520's to 1530's) As the Reformation hit England, different factions created dramas around the political rifts at court. The literary set that orbited Thomas More presented traditional debate on one side, whilst the rising star of Thomas Cromwell commissioned his players to write revelations on the other. https://quaysudbury.com/events/entertaining-henry-show-2-reformation-more-vs-cromwell/ Sunday 22nd June at 7.30pm Show 3 - Snail Fight! And Other Tudor Shenanigans (1530's to 1547) We close our festival with some of the sillier plays from the end of Henry's reign – featuring a sword fight with a snail, an ecclesiastical bust up in a church, and the epic conquest of the monster Tediousness! https://quaysudbury.com/events/entertaining-henry-show-3-snail-fight-and-other-tudor-shenanegans/ Season discount for each show - £14 for one show, £26 for two shows, £36 for all three Book Tickets Now for Show 1! Book Tickets Now for Show 2! Book Tickets Now for Show 3! Ticket discount is applied if you add additional shows from the season. Box Office: quaysudbury.com or call 01787 374 745 The Quay Theatre, Quay Lane, Sudbury CO10 2AN The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on social media usually @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

As part of the run up to Entertaining Henry we have this chat about Thomas More, prompted by Dr Joanne Paul's latest book on his life - it's a Venn diagram of a discussion, between the life of More, and the theatre world around him. Recorded live on zoom - there will be another live discussion in under two weeks time, details below. Thomas More: A Life and Death in Tudor England by Dr Joanne Paul is coming to UK bookshops this week, and the US in a couple of months (I believe) - do support your local bookstore, or order from somewhere responsible like... https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/thomas-more-a-life-dr-joanne-paul/7765640?ean=9781405953603 For more on the plays of John Heywood and a little on John Rastell - here's a handy playlist. Next Discussing Live: Snail Fight! with Professor Liz Oakley-Brown – Tuesday 10th June at 7.15pm Professor Liz Oakley-Brown returns to the pod to discuss the play Thersites, that snail fight, and why the Tudors loved snails! Sign up here! A co-production with The Quay Theatre and Beyond Shakespeare... Let us take you through a whistle-stop tour of the entertainment world from Henry's reign: from his youthful days to his more fractious later life, we will share the history of his reign through the plays he and his subjects enjoyed. Play along with our Tudor Bingo Card, catch the pop-up merry tales, and enjoy entertainments fit for a king! Friday 20th June at 7.30pm Show 1 - Welcome to Henry's Court! (1509 to 1520's) We welcome you to the Court of the newly-crowned King Henry! Let us introduce you to all the major players on and off stage, the rules of the court, and perform some of the earliest plays to survive from his reign – plays designed to curb Henry's boisterous ways. https://quaysudbury.com/events/entertaining-henry-show-1-welcome-to-henrys-court/ Saturday 21st June at 7.30pm Show 2 - Reformation: More vs Cromwell (1520's to 1530's) As the Reformation hit England, different factions created dramas around the political rifts at court. The literary set that orbited Thomas More presented traditional debate on one side, whilst the rising star of Thomas Cromwell commissioned his players to write revelations on the other. https://quaysudbury.com/events/entertaining-henry-show-2-reformation-more-vs-cromwell/ Sunday 22nd June at 7.30pm Show 3 - Snail Fight! And Other Tudor Shenanigans (1530's to 1547) We close our festival with some of the sillier plays from the end of Henry's reign – featuring a sword fight with a snail, an ecclesiastical bust up in a church, and the epic conquest of the monster Tediousness! https://quaysudbury.com/events/entertaining-henry-show-3-snail-fight-and-other-tudor-shenanegans/ Season discount for each show - £14 for one show, £26 for two shows, £36 for all three Book Tickets Now for Show 1! Book Tickets Now for Show 2! Book Tickets Now for Show 3! Ticket discount is applied if you add additional shows from the season. Box Office: quaysudbury.com or call 01787 374 745 The Quay Theatre, Quay Lane, Sudbury CO10 2AN The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is supported by its patrons – become a patron and you get to choose the plays we work on next. Go to www.patreon.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/beyondshakespeare - or if you want to give us some feedback, email us at admin@beyondshakespeare.org, follow us on social media usually @BeyondShakes or go to our website: https://beyondshakespeare.org You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where (most of) our exploring sessions live - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa4pXxGZFwTX4QSaB5XNdQ The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast is hosted and produced by Robert Crighton.

After a short break from the National Theatre, Zubin Varla is returning to the South Bank for Tanika Gupta's new play: A Tupperware of Ashes. This will mark Zubin's first show back at the Dorfman Theatre since The Enchantment and we hear Zubin talk about his love for the National Theatre having performed on all 3 stages during his illustrious career. Last year, he was at the Olivier for Odyssey with Public Acts and prior to this he's also appeared in productions of The Life of Galileo, Attempts On Her Life and Dara. Over the course of recent years, he's continued to take on a multitude of roles ranging from Monk in Dave Malloy's Ghost Quartet, Thersites in Troilus and Cressida and won an Olivier for his performance as Jerry Falwell in Tammy Faye.In a rare interview, Zubin Varla opens up about his love for rich, complex writing and the pleasures of getting to evolve as an actor. As he continues rehearsals for A Tupperware of Ashes, he tells us about his love for collaboration with fellow actors and creatives when developing a new play. Indeed, in recent years, he's continued to explore both contemporary and classic texts from A Little Life to The Two Character Play to Fun Home. It's an extraordinary career which has taken him from the RSC to the Royal Court, Hampstead and now back to the National Theatre. A Tupperware of Ashes runs at the Dorfman Theatre, National Theatre from 25 September - 16 November. 

(Formerly episode 16, partially re-recorded as of June 30, 2022) Guest: Kelten First, one of the common soldiers at Troy tells Agamemnon what everyone else is thinking and Odysseus threatens to smack him upside the head. Then, we tour Tell Abada (on the far northeastern edge of the Ubaid world), with interesting evidence of political centralization around 5000 BCE. Then, we talk about increasing social & economic complexity in the late 4000s & early 3000s BCE. What makes cereals more conducive to state formation than other Neolithic crops (like lentils)? Then, we look at the administrative centers in Ubaid towns like Eridu, both as socio-political institutions and as architectural monuments. At this point, they're in the process of transforming from the domestic houses of prominent families to the sprawling temple bureaucracies which dominate the early history of Mesopotamia. Then, we visit one of the other most famous cities in Mesopotamia. Unug, alias Uruk, alias Erech, alias Warka, home to Gilgamesh and Inanna and the biblical Nimrod, will be the world's largest city throughout the late 4th millennium BCE, during which time humanity will invent bronze, the state, and the written word. Then, we take one last look at Ubaid society. How does the concept of chiefdom apply to the Ubaid alluvium? Finally, Odysseus & Thersites resolve their dispute like civilized men! Questions? Feedback? Email us at drumbeatforeverafter@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @drumbeatforever Works cited

L'hydre est l'un des monstres les plus connus de l'Antiquité grecque et appartient à l'un des cycles mythologiques les plus enseignés et représentés : les 12 travaux d'Héraclès. L'Hydre de Lerne jouit d'une notoriété populaire grâce au récit de ce mythe depuis l'Antiquité. Ce monstre à plusieurs têtes est à l'origine d'une grande variété de citations, de la politique à la littérature en passant par toutes sortes de productions artistiques. Voir: https://antiquipop.hypotheses.org/6967 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hndl Avec: Laurent Turcot, professeur en histoire à l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada Abonnez-vous à ma chaine: https://www.youtube.com/c/LHistoirenousledira Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/histoirenousledira Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/turcotlaurent Les vidéos sont utilisées à des fins éducatives selon l'article 107 du Copyright Act de 1976 sur le Fair-Use.   Pour aller plus loin: Fabien Bièvre-Perrin, « The different faces of the Lernaean Hydra in contemporary pop culture: from cinema to video games », Thersites, 8, 2019 [en ligne]. Amandry (1944). – Pierre Amandry, ‘Skyphos corinthien du Musée du Louvre', Monuments et mémoires de la Fondation Eugène Piot 40 (1944), p. 23–52. Benoit (2008). – Monique Benoit, ‘Ilana Löwy L'emprise du genre. Masculinité, féminité, égalité. Paris, Éditions La Dispute, 2006, 277 p. [book recension]', Recherches féministes 21, 1 (2008) , p. 189–193. Besnard (2017). – Tiphaine-Annabelle Besnard, ‘L'Athéna Parthénos américanisée : de la sculpture d'Alan LeQuire au décor du film Percy Jackson, le Voleur de foudre', in: Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (ed.), Antiquipop (Lyon 2017). En ligne : https://antiquipop.hypotheses.org/2559. Carlà-Uhink & Freitag (2015). – Filippo Carlà-Uhink & Florian Freitag, ‘Ancient Greek Culture and Myth in the Terra Mítica Theme Park', in: Classical Receptions Journal 7 (2015), p. 242–259 Carlà-Uhink & Freitag (2018). – Filippo Carlà-Uhink & Florian Freitag, ‘(Not so) Dangerous Journeys: The Ancient Mediterranean and Ancient Mythological Sea Travelers in European Theme Park Attractions', in: H. Kopp & C. Wendt (ed.), Thalassokratographie. Rezeption und Transformation antiker Seeherrschaft (Berlin 2018), p. 283–300. Carlà-Uhink (2017). – Filippo Carlà-Uhink et al., ‘ (Alte) Geschichte in der Werbung: Berichte aus einem Heidelberger Seminar [Joey Rauschenberger] ', in: Thersites 6 (2017), p. 367–457. Online: http://www.thersites.uni-mainz.de/index.php/thr/article/view/73 Cixous (1976). – Hélène Cixous, ‘The Laugh of the Medusa', Signs 1, 4 (1976, translation 1975), p. 875–893. Clasen (2012). – Mathias Clasen, ‘Monsters Evolve: A Biocultural Approach to Horror Stories', Review of General Psychology 16, 2 (2012), p. 222–229. Cuvelier (2018). – Pierre Cuvelier, ‘Le Choc des titans et ses répliques : diffusion et réappropriation ludique de nouveaux types figurés mythologiques dans les arts visuels', in: Fabien Bièvre-Perrin & Élise Pampanay, (ed.), Antiquipop : La référence à l'Antiquité dans la culture populaire contemporaine (Lyon 2018). En ligne : https://books.openedition.org/momeditions/3383 Delon (2014). – Gaspard Delon, ‘Avatars du péplum ? Présences de l'Antiquité gréco-latine dans les genres cinématographiques du fantastique, de la fantasy et de la science-fiction', in: Mélanie Bost‑Fievet & Sandra Provini (ed.), L'Antiquité dans l'imaginaire contemporain. Fantasy, science-fiction, fantastique (Paris 2014), p. 65–79. Dumont (2009). – Hervé Dumont, L'Antiquité au cinéma. Vérités, légendes et manipulations (Paris-Lausanne 2009). Jung (1966). – Marc-René Jung, Hercule dans la littérature française du XVIè siècle : De l'Hercule courtois à l'Hercule baroque (Genève 1966). El Kenz (1992). – David El Kenz, ‘Le roi de France et le monstre dans les gravures : genèse et déclin politique d'une image aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles', Matériaux pour l'histoire de notre temps 28 (1992), p. 3-7. Eppinger (2015). – Alexandra Eppinger, Herkules in der Spätantike (Wiesbaden 2015). Hougron (2005). – Alexandre Hougron, ‘La figure du monstre dans la littérature et au cinéma : monstre et intertextualité', La page des Lettres (2005). En ligne : https://lettres.ac-versailles.fr/spip.php?article28#s-References Kerenyi (1959). – Karl Kerenyi, Asklepios, archetypal image of the physician's existence (New York 1959). Kokkorou-Alevras (1990). – Georgia Kokkorou-Alevras, ‘C. Herakles and the Lernaean Hydra (Labour III) ', in: LIMC V, 1 (Bern 1990), p. 34–43. Zavadski (2014). – Katie Zavadski, ‘Putin's Birthday Present Is a Hercules-Themed Art Show About How Manly and Amazing He Is', Intelligencer (6/10/2014). En ligne : http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/10/putin-birthday-present-hercules-art-show.html #histoire #documentaire

In this lecture, (a) we perceive a false dream which Agamemnon follows rather than good counsel; (b) we meet Thersites of the endless speech after a disastrous "call to arms" by Agamemnon, and (c) we see Odysseus jump into action to corral the troops. We then (d) meet Paris at the opening of Bk. 3 and close with a (e) description of the Achaian and Trojan Forces and an (f) explanation of Homeric Simile. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

In this episode I discuss how Thersites, Scamander and Sarpedon shape the way we understand the Iliad, other characters in it and even wider themes. Music by Brakhage (Le Vrai Instrumental)    

In episode 010, I lecture on Homer's Book II: Agamemnon's Evil Dream, Nestor, Agamemnon's failed pump-up speech, Odysseus' fixing the situation, Thersites, and the Catalog of Ships --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support

Sandymount Strand. Stephen's thoughts: his father's voice editorializes on his mother's family. To illuminate, Frank calls on the Iliad, and Thersites's rant against Agamemnon.