The great hero Beowulf, wrestling with the monster Grendel, split the sinews of his foe and snapped his arm off at the shoulder. Going up against the monster's mother, he slammed her to the earth, ...

With a starry cast including Jeff Bridges, Bryan Cranston and Dave Bautista, writer-director Robert D. Krzykowski is counting on old-school movie magic from The Jim Henson Co. to turn Beowulf’s ...

I started reading Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf on the way to my first cross-country meet in 8th grade. I didn’t know anything about the story—I didn’t even know that the language printed on the other side ...

In this essay, I suggest Rowling’s Goblet of Fire literarily echoes the Old English epic poem Beowulf, while simultaneously updating the medieval epic to reflect the novel’s place within the ...

Beowulf with the Finnesburg Fragment. Edited by C.L. Wrenn and W.F. Bolton, U of Exeter P, 1992. Bliss, Alan. “Preface.” J.R.R. Tolkien, Finn and Hengest: The ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Beowulf explained to BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge that he had many early ...

Oscar-winning director Robert Zemeckis's innovative hybrid of live-action and animation sold $US28.1 million worth of tickets during its first three days, domestic ...

Michael Fenlason is, clearly, fearless. Come this weekend, when ghosts and goblins reign, he will be mounting "Lear," his take on Shakespeare's "King Lear," at Beowulf Alley Theatre. It's a daunting ...

With Heorot saved from the menace of Grendel, Beowulf can finally leave and get back to adventuring. Except the night before he leaves, the king's advisor is abducted as revenge! Even something as ...