It’s extraordinary to find a 38-year-old sci-fi action franchise that’s flourishing. In this subgenre, the cinematic life ...

Imagine a meeting of your neighborhood watch where the neighbor down the street bursts in, yelling “Help, my house is burning!” You survey the room and another neighbor is sitting ...

Image of a Corinthian-style helmet from the Battle of Marathon. Credit: Royal Ontario Museum. A pivotal moment in Ancient Greek history, the Battle of Marathon saw a smaller Greek force, mainly made ...

This is when we learn about the core of Beowulf’s character. He is driven to help others. So in the show, the first time Beowulf says “I’ll go” is after he hears about the Grendel attack. Beowulf is ...

The tone quickly changes for both scenes as they are followed shortly by battles with Grendel, puppeteered by Alex Carrigan ’25, and Grendel’s Mother, puppeteered by Perry. After the two comical dance ...

So Beowulf dons his armor and seeks out Grendel's mother in her lair, beneath a fetid lake filled with water like acid and so deep no human has ever seen the bottom. Extra History.

Inspired by contemporary translations by Maria Dahvana Headley and the late Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, Kyd talks and sometimes sings us through the various parts of the epic — backstory, Beowulf’s ...

She’s a woman without a name. A woman whom scholars cannot agree on whether she is human, Sea Hag or goddess.