If you’ve been grumbling lately that Hollywood doesn’t make enough semi-animated Middle Ages epics featuring monsters who drool in 3-D, “Beowulf” just might be the movie for you. Grendel, a horrific ...

In his solo rendition of "Beowulf" on Wednesday at Ozawa Hall, Benjamin Bagby may be the only musician during the Tanglewood season who will perform an entire evening without any written music. It's ...

(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 ...

One of the oldest, longest and most influential works in the history of Old English will soon be experienced through the eyes of one of the world’s most beloved fantasy authors. J.R.R. Tolkien’s ...

There are masterpieces that you know you should read but don't really want to sit down and study. "Beowulf," an Old English text that has tormented generations of students, is one of them. Thankfully, ...

Actors’ Theatre of Columbus marks a promising expansion beyond its outdoor summer plays with a laid-back and casually amusing take on an epic tale. “Beowulf (and the Bard),” which launched the company ...

The Old English poem we call Beowulf has long been held as a kind of canonical “beginning” for English literature, though in more of a “prehistoric” sense than a foundational one. English departments ...

My thanks for one of your wonderful book reviews. On your pages, I find books that other, more “trendy” reviewers largely ignore. This one, “The Wordhord” by Hana Videen, reviewed by Henry Hitchings ...