- Please watch this; watching it now and so inspiring and helpful on Beowulf
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C0sFXU0SLo
- does beowulf fight Grendel only for fame? for what?
- documentary says beowulf our nation's greatest gift to the world. Why?????
- documentary says the language most effect on use today; language = beliefs.
- Germanic Anglo saxons were immigrants to England in 15th century.
- english language today descendant of their speech. 'words define our core beliefs and relations with other human beings.'
- set in denmark; like Hamlet!!!! Maybe when Beowulf is coming from Sweden to Denmark, he meets Hamlet, on his way to England.
- original manuscript got burnt.
- have audience draw a picture of the monster they imagine Grendel to be? Long roll of paper adn charcoal and audience work together to draw monster. then work together to take arm off picture.
- MInute 13. watch the story-teller; victor seems very suited to this bit. Learn it!
- Anglo saxon belief ; death beginning of journey.
There is an original manuscript!
really like the idea that the audience create a dragon, or monster of their own. We could split them into groups or something and have lots of different interpretations of the same monster.
ReplyDeleteAh this is the documentary I saw! It's brilliant :D
ReplyDeleteI did my essay on Hamlet, so I know a bit about it.