For too long the Old English poem has long been perceived as a "masculine text," says Maria Dahvana Headley. Her new adaptation is told from the perspective of Grendel's mother.

Over a thousand years ago, a writer (or writers) penned an epic poem about a warrior named Beowulf who must defeat an evil monster (the story is replete with power struggles, lots of killing and ...

Breaking down Beowulf Researchers use statistical technique to find evidence that Old English poem had a single author Date: April 8, 2019 Source: ...

Tolkien himself struggled with the ancient text. Long before his writing of The Lord of the Rings, he attempted a translation of Beowulf from the Old English in which it was originally written.And ...

The original text is reworked to contain lavish portions of Freudian castration fear and Madonna-whore complexes. So far, so Scorsese, but the same is true in The Green Knight, and the similarities ...

Monstrous! Old English classic Beowulf gets slapped with trigger warning as university dons fear students may be distressed to read about monsters ...

(AP) - The name "Beowulf" alone surely will inspire painful memories of high-school English class and pangs of dread. Never fear. This 3-D animated "Beowulf" is more like "300," only with more ...

It may be the summer’s ideal alternative to all those eardrum-exploding movie blockbusters, or your continuing struggle to hold Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon upright when your han… ...