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What literary text could seem further from reality these days than Beowulf — that approximately 1,500-year-old Anglo Saxon verse epic about a Scandinavian hero fighting monsters that’s known mainly by ...

Transforming Space Over Time tells the stories of six diverse productions: five on Broadway and one Off Broadway. Tony Award-winning set designer Beowulf Boritt begins with the moment he was offered ...

Somebody returned a copy of "Beowulf" 54 years after it was checked out. At the time, the library charged 5 cents per day for overdue books. The library said the book would have accumulated a fine of ...

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An illustration of the eponymous hero fighting the dragon, next to a manuscript of Beowulf from circa AD 1000, located in the British Library (iStock/Getty) The tale describes a battle with three ...

"Why read this translation of Beowulf? Because there isn't a better one to be found," writes Robert D. Stevick in the foreword of the newly published "Beowulf in Parallel Texts" by Lee Sung-il.

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“From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf” went the quip encapsulating the university canon of English Literature in the latter half of the 20th century. But it is easy to forget now that Beowulf – an epic of ...

A few days ago my friend Julie confessed she had never read Bridge to Terabithia. To quote Blanche Devereaux, "I am stunned! Just stunned! Stunned is the only way to describe how ... stunned I am!" I ...