Daniel Mendelsohn
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599 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
Daniel Mendelsohn’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The soprano rarely comes in before the second half of the first act.
So it's a way of building up suspense in the audience, and I think it works well.
And as you said, what the first four books, which focus on
What's going on in Ithaca?
As you said, the suitors are pressing Penelope to marry them.
She's using all her tricks to keep them at bay.
The son is moping around, wishing his father would finally come home.
He's never even known him.
It's a way of establishing the stakes, as you put it, and that I think uh every Hollywood person would understand.
You have to understand what the stakes of this character's return.
Represent с in order to make the whole rest of the epic seem worthwhile.
You know, and the stakes that are established are that the whole island is falling apart.
You know, it's on the verge of collapse.
The family, but also the island as a political entity, there are political tensions.
So it's a very canny way of starting, I think, in quite effective.
Well, um to a certain extent.
I mean there are certain uh episodes that the students well, not just the students, I mean everybody.
respond to on a first reading that you never forget.
For example, the most famous one being
after Odysseus is returned home, but he's in disguise, uh so nobody knows that it's he, and he approaches the palace because of course his
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