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A trailer is up for the Zemeckis Beowulf (screenplay by Neil Gaiman & Roger Avary):
You know, I once read a poem by that title, and its main character was named Beowulf, too. But this doesn't look anything like that poem.
In fact, I've read that poem many times, sometimes in the original Old English!
If you want to know what the poem is really like, you can see the text to the prologue and listen to Peter S. Baker reading it in Old English.
I like Neil Gaiman, really. I adored American Gods; Anansi Boys is on my Long List of Things to Read. I enjoyed Neverwhere, and I loved his short story "Baywulf." But I'm awfully fond of the original poem.
If it gets more students to read Old English, I won't complain . . . too much. But I'll complain some.
You know, I once read a poem by that title, and its main character was named Beowulf, too. But this doesn't look anything like that poem.
In fact, I've read that poem many times, sometimes in the original Old English!
If you want to know what the poem is really like, you can see the text to the prologue and listen to Peter S. Baker reading it in Old English.
I like Neil Gaiman, really. I adored American Gods; Anansi Boys is on my Long List of Things to Read. I enjoyed Neverwhere, and I loved his short story "Baywulf." But I'm awfully fond of the original poem.
If it gets more students to read Old English, I won't complain . . . too much. But I'll complain some.
