Founded in 1966, The Chaucer Review: A Journal of Medieval Studies and Literary Criticism publishes studies of the language, sources, historical and political contexts, social milieus, and aesthetics ...

The giant strides into Mead Hall and bellows, “I am Beowulf, and I’m here to kill your monster.” That’s how Hollywood turns a Danish warrior from an eighth-century Old English epic into a movie hero.

Okay, sit still. I have a lot of things to say about Maria Dahvana Headley's new book, Beowulf, and I'm gonna try to say them all right now. It is Beowulf, mostly. Beowulf, kinda. It is Beowulf down ...

In the Beowulf manuscript only can be read in line 1875a. Some letters have been lost, but there is no reason to insert a negative particle because Hrothgar's farewell expectation was probably that he ...

Even if you didn’t know the legend of Beowulf, you’d get a pretty good idea of what you were in for with the new adaptation premiering on the Esquire Network on Saturday, Jan. 23, from the opening ...

If you must see "Beowulf," try to catch it in one of the 1,000 theaters where it will be shown in 3-D. Otherwise you will miss the full effect of the most visceral depiction of monster drool the ...

Dusty Old English poem Beowulf, long required reading in schools, went Hollywood on Friday in a bit of high-tech animated movie trickery that its makers are loath to call "animation." The story, about ...

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It seems unfair to call any iteration of the epic “Beowulf” derivative, because “Beowulf” pretty much started it all. The 3,182-line tale of a Scandinavian hero keeping the world safe from monsters ...

Midway through “Beowulf - A Thousand Years of Baggage,” a new Banana Bag & Bodice production playing at OBERON until May 5, Grendel’s mother emerges in the blue eerie light to mourn the death of her ...

If you've ever watched Game Of Thrones and thought, "Gosh, my elderly mum / kids / prudish pal would love this, if it weren't for all the gore and shagging", then ITV's more family-friendly fantasy ...

In "Beowulf & Grendel," the first epic poem in the English language receives a rendition that's about half as good and half as harsh as it needed to be. Icelandic-shot version of the legendary revenge ...