Autolycus

Now Autolycus once had gone to the rich land of Ithaca, and found his daughter’s son a child new-born, and when he was making an end of supper, behold, Eurycleia set the babe on his knees, and spake and hailed him: ‘Autolycus, find now a name thyself to give thy child’s own son; for lo, he is a child of many prayers.

Book XIX Homer 1909

He is also one of the stars of The Winter's Tale, a production first seen in 2005, which features Bell as a bare-chested Gary Glitter of an Autolycus, who can strip a shepherd down to a G-string while he keeps him talking.

She Stoops to Conquer; Henry V, The Winter's Tale – review 2012

This production is ever so slightly star-studded: directed by Sam Mendes, cast including Simon Russell Beale (Leontes), Ethan Hawke (Autolycus), Sinead Cusack (Paulina) and Rebecca Hall (Hermione).

February Books 22) Short Trips: Repercussions, edited by Gary Russell nwhyte 2009

Accompanying him is Autolycus, and while all the names are familiar from the old Kevin Sorbo Action Pack television show, this is overall a stronger narrative.

Review: Rapid-Fire Review | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

It depends a bit on the humorous character Autolycus, who dominates the relatively few scenes he is in.

May Books 6) The Winter's Tale, by William Shakespeare nwhyte 2009

Better than the series actually (with the exception of Xena and Autolycus of course).

Hercules: The Beginning 2008

MTV is host to a 6 page preview of the first issue that teams up Evil Dead's Ash and Xena's Xena, Gabrielle and Autolycus, which Campbell also played in the television series.

Xena: Warrior Princess vs The Army of Darkness 2008

Although I had a bit of a problem with him as Trofimov in The Cherry Orchard, but as Autolycus in Tale, by golly, he was sensational!

Filmstalker: Stalker's Top Ten 2009: Feigned Mischief: Film stars on stage 2010

During these final scenes, performances radiating their own redemptive powers are filed by the lissome Heather Lind as 16-year-old Perdita, by bold Francois Battiste as her lover and Polixenes's son Florizel, by effortlessly funny Jesse Tyler Ferguson and by always reliable Hamish Linklater as the scamming Autolycus.

David Finkle: First Nighter: Public Theater's Merchant of Venice and Winter's Tale Are Problems, Only the First of Which Is Solved 2010

He grasped Autolycus, for instance, that wandering snapper-up of unconsidered trifles, in Ronald Eyre's 1981 The Winter's Tale at Stratford-upon-Avon, and transformed him into a Chaplinesque tramp with a deliciously unlikely repertoire of Victorian parlour songs.

Geoffrey Hutchings obituary 2010