Beowulf: The Complete Story: A Drama (an audio book)
Beowulf: The Complete Story: A Drama (an audio book)
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Product Details:
Author:
Dick Ringler
Publisher:
University of Wisconsin Press
Publication Date:
August 31, 2006
Language:
English
ISBN:
0971509328
Package Length:
5.4 inches
Package Width:
5.0 inches
Package Height:
1.0 inches
Package Weight:
0.45 pounds
Average Customer Rating:
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Description:
This dramatization of a bold new version of the complete thousand-year-old text features actors from Wisconsin Public Radio, the American Players Theatre, and the Guthrie Theatre, supported by music and sound effects. The translation, by Professor Dick Ringler of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, evokes the original spoken delivery of the Old English masterpiece.
Cast in Order of Appearance Narrator, Dick Ringler; Danish Coast Guard, Nathan Sorseth; Beowulf, Stephen Pelinski; Sentry at Heorot, Jim DeVita; Hrothgar, King of the Danes, Karl Schmidt; Unferth, Craig Johnson; Wealhtheow, Susan Sweeney; Hygelac, L.J. Janowski; Last Survivor, Jonathan Smoots; Wiglaf, Jason Bradley; Messenger, Jason O’Connell
Distributed for NEMO Productions, Madison, Wisconsin.
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Why Beowulf is great literatureJan 23, 2007 I've read, studied, and quoted Beowulf, but I had never heard it done such a compelling fashion. The language is stirring, and the sound effects are realistic. When you hear this, you understand how this tale survived. The alliteration helped the successive narrators remember the tale and swept the audience along in the story. Great work!
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