In Dan Telfer’s reimagining of Beowulf for Theater Oobleck, a church scribe arrives at the monster Grendel’s underwater lair several years before Beowulf, and together scribe and beast translate the ...
Beowulf can be read as a Christian allegory about good and evil. The chronicler-poets, who were Christian monks, portrayed Beowulf as the champion of goodness (a mighty, muscular Christ figure) while ...