Beowulf

• Wrote in Old English language
  
• Talks how the brave men that come to battle the demons.
  
• Beowulf the Main character in the poem.
  
• Talks about old ages like lord of the rings.
  
• People thought that the Beowulf poet was not very good but once they read his poems he became a very popular man.
  
• Poems:
  
• The Last survivors speech
  
• Beowulf and Grendel
  http://www.poetseers.org/the_great_poets/the_classics/beowulf/grendel_attacks/

Roman Empire collapse, Christianity fills the void

First PLAY ever recorded: One MAN- morale Play, all old English

Geoffrey Chaucer

Middle English

Church + common people ideas

MODERN ENGLISH

Shakespeare- religion

Common people

Classics-Greek/roman

Love of language/ symbol/sounds/drama

Builds a place called Globe theater

Beowulf, Original copy of poem

It may be that a trained scop dictated the work to a scribe or that the poet had become literate, probably educated at one of the monasteries that existed in England at the time, which could account for the Christian influences in what probably was originally a pagan poem. Whatever the method was, the excellence of the work implies that the final result was the product of one very talented poet.