The Old English poem will be turned into a 13-part epic drama Wikimedia Commons The heroic medieval epic of Beowulf is to be turned into a 13-part ITV drama. The poem contains 3,182 lines written in ...

Historically informed performance—the practice of reviving older styles of music through the close examination of their social context, as well as surviving manuscript scores—has been the norm in ...

A copy of the medieval epic poem “Beowulf” was returned to the Sewickley Public Library in Pennsylvania recently, 54 years after it was checked out. The book, a translation of old English done by ...

On the top floor of Margaret Jacks Hall, the Stanford English Department performed a sly act of transformation on Thursday: It turned a conference room into a mead hall. What appeared initially to be ...

JRR Tolkien's 1926 translation will be accompanied by his previously unpublished short story Sellic Spell Wikimedia Commons JRR Tolkien's translation of Beowulf, the longest epic poem in Old English ...

Over a thousand years ago, a writer (or writers) penned an epic poem about a warrior named Beowulf who must defeat an evil monster (the story is replete with power struggles, lots of killing and, yes, ...

TORONTO — Scottish thesp Gerard Butler has signed to play the lead in the Canada/U.K./Iceland co-production “Beowulf & Grendel.” Butler (“Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life,” “Timeline”) has ...

08:15, Thu, Jan 14, 2021 Updated: 18:37, Thu, Jan 14, 2021 Netflix will release its new film ‘The Dig’ later this month depicting the events of the incredible excavation in Woodbridge, Suffolk. The ...

What have they done to Beowulf, everyone’s least favorite Old English epic about a hero’s battles with a monster, the monster’s mother and an annoying dragon who turns up 50 years later? Director ...