Beowulf at Theatre Project

adapt: Charlie Bethel.

Authors

• Betty Jane Wylie
• Lenny Pickett
• Lindsey Turner
• Victor Davies

Beowulf is the longest epic poem in Old English, the language spoken in Anglo-Saxon England before the Norman Conquest. More than 3,000 lines long, Beowulf relates the exploits of its eponymous hero, and his successive battles with a monster, named Grendel, with Grendel’s revengeful mother, and with a dragon which was guarding a hoard of treasure.