“Beowulf” does not translate well into Hollywoodese, to judge by the new sex-sword-and-dragon epic of that title starring Anthony Hopkins, Ray Winstone and Angelina Jolie. But it does ...

Beowulf, of precarious provenance—the single surviving, crumbling manuscript bears the scorch marks of an 18th-century library fire—has traveled across a thousand years to lodge in our ...

Visit the Beowulf page for tickets and show times. Charlie Bethel was the creator of numerous critically acclaimed solo shows, including The Odyssey and Beowulf.

And so Headley’s Beowulf is a rambling, boastful, word-drunk poem, one where a worshipful young soldier “stanned for Beowulf,” while Beowulf himself “began, sick-hearted, to hear his death ...

In 1731 a fire at Ashburnham House scorched the edges of the "Beowulf" pages. In the 1750s the manuscript became part of the holdings of the newly formed British Museum.

Seeing as it spans 30 years, it wouldn't make sense for Beowulf to be just an endless string of hack-and-slash levels. Instead, your time will be divided between the "dungeons" - levels in which ...

We take a look at this Epic Poem and follow its long, winding journey.

Maria Dahvana Headley’s revisionist translation infuses the Old English poem with feminism and social-media slang.

“Beowulf” is aided and abetted mightily by the action choreography, which takes more than a few pages from epic video games like “God of War.” But where this is usually a put-down for most movies, it ...