After all, the poem is dreaded required reading for ... The idea has always been to try to make a unified story out of Beowulf by setting new ground rules for retelling it.” ...

The script’s main claim to interest is the way it Hollywoodizes the structure of the original poem, using the thread of sex to tie together the story’s first part, where Beowulf slays the ...

It could be the plot of Hollywood's latest blockbuster movie. But this is the story of Beowulf, a poem once told in timber-framed barns in Anglo-Saxon England, to the raucous noise of the mead ...

distorts the importance in the poem of his single-minded pursuit of his foes. The two Hollywood writers go further, claiming that by altering the story so that Beowulf “made a pact with a demon ...

The story of Beowulf is old. Really old. The epic poem, which has been translated and re-translated for centuries, is the Anglo-Saxon tale of a warrior who’s celebrated for his victorious bouts ...

It’s holding something for us, this poem, the value ... diabolical liberties with the story. Much more successful and interesting have been the graphic novels. Beowulf is a natural comic book ...

an epic 3,182-line poem written 1,000 years ago that even in translation may read as a long-dead language, it can be hard to remember you are having to read Beowulf because the story is so GOOD.

It is Beowulf down to the line numbers, and tells the story of Beowulf and Hrothgar and ... It is thousand-year-old slam poetry, 'Hamilton' for the Geats and Skyldings — full of blood and ...

I got to explore the power of the poem's minimal descriptions and the force of its one-thing-after-another plot. After a year of living with "Beowulf" in Montreal -- as McGill University's lone ...