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 ...

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 ...

That most famous opening word, at once an exclamation and command, of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem known as “Beowulf,” has captured our attention and imagination for centuries. And why not? How could ...

JRR Tolkien's 1926 translation will be accompanied by his previously unpublished short story Sellic Spell Wikimedia Commons JRR Tolkien's translation of Beowulf, the longest epic poem in Old English ...

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 ...

BERKELEY — “Please turn off all phones, or risk the vengeance of Grendel’s claw.” So the audience was warned Tuesday at Zellerbach Playhouse, where Benjamin Bagby — medievalist, musician and ...

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, ...

The fire nine months ago at Notre Dame in Paris shocked the world because of the cathedral’s beauty, iconic status and antiquity. Construction began in 1161 and wasn’t completed until more than a ...

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 ...