Beowulf In The Suburbs? 'The Mere Wife' Is An Epic Retelling For too long the Old English poem has long been perceived as a "masculine text," says Maria Dahvana Headley.

“Beowulf”—in which the eponymous hero, a man of gigantic, and perhaps supernatural, strength, defends King Hrothgar and the Danes against Grendel, a part man, part monster who is plaguing ...

Beowulf isn't just significant in English literary history - it is set in Denmark and was actually first translated from the Anglo-Saxon into Danish. As Prof Burn says, the Danes "see it as their ...

Witness the legendary first encounter between Beowulf and Grendel, a monster that terrorized Heorot’s great hall. This is the ...

Beowulf will roll out in the largest 3-D release of any film to date, including Imax 3D. While 2-D prints will certainly play well, Zemeckis has brilliantly designed the movie for 3-D, ...

Beowulf, the famous poem written sometime between the seventh and tenth centuries in the Anglo-Saxon language known as Old English, and about the heroic battles of a brave warrior against two ...

Beowulf exists in a single manuscript (ca. 1,000 CE), known mostly to antiquarians before the beginning of the 19th century. The intense interest in Beowulf since then reflects the English desire ...

Robert Zemeckis’s Beowulf is getting a “director’s cut” version as part of its February 26th DVD release. I’m wondering if this is just an excuse to insert a few extra frames of footage ...

It might be based on an ancient saga, but Robert Zemeckis’ “Beowulf” is ushering in a very modern era of filmmaking. The ambitious motion-capture animated film from Paramount/Warner Bros ...