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...Since then, a few things have actually gotten green-lighted. Coraline is being made by Henry Sellick as a stop-motion thing. Robert Zemeckis will start shooting the Beowulf script that Roger Avary and I did next week. It's one of his weird motion-capture things...
These artistic enactments are forms of mythmaking. They rearrange experience to endow it with drama and significance. The novelist John Gardner once wrote a version of Beowulf from the monster Grendel's point of view. In Gardner's telling, a blind harper appears at King Hrothgar's hall and sings, transforming Hrothgar's bloody, sordid career into "ringing phrases, magnificent, golden, and all of them, incredibly, lies. The man had changed the world, had torn up the past by its thick, gnarled roots and had transmuted it, and they who knew the truth, remembered...
...Poet-in-Residence is one of the most stellar attractions the University counts among its rich wellspring of resources. The 1995 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature doesn’t restrain himself to the poetry for which he won the prize; Heaney counts a definitive translation of Beowulf, over ten collections of radiant verse and several collections of critical essays among his impressively voluminous works...
BOOKS: Hamlet meets Beowulf in Something Rotten...
...real world, pursuing a malevolent fictional character named Yorrick Kaine, who has managed to escape his native novel and is trying to become dictator of Britain. The narrative involves the Cheshire cat, cloned Neanderthals, Thursday's 2-year-old son (who is named, inevitably, Friday), time travel, Beowulf and Hamlet. We are also treated to the edifying spectacle of a hostile takeover of Hamlet by the characters of The Merry Wives of Windsor. Fun, but Fforde's cheerfulness is relentless. Genuine pathos can be found in the interplay between the world of fiction and its drabber, realer counterpart, but Fforde...