For centuries, wassailing marked the noisy, boozy end of the Christmas season. Groups of singers would roam from house to house on Twelfth Night, calling out blessings in exchange for food and drink — ...

This historical epic (which was written by Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton) flopped at the box office, but it's ...

Cloquet High School students in teacher Jason Richardson’s English class each wrote a narrative story of some sort after ...

Oscar-winning director Robert Zemeckis's innovative hybrid of live-action and animation sold $US28.1 million worth of tickets during its first three days, domestic ...

Tolkien's estate has signed a deal with HarperCollins to release it as a book in May, accompanied by further thoughts on the text which he prepared for a series of lectures given at Oxford during his ...

“That is what this story is doing,” Schlabach said. “We are looking at this Beowulf story from the perspective of someone whose experience was erased and whose side of the story was never told. It’s ...

Great Canadian Theatre Company opened its 50th anniversary season with a world premiere from Ottawa playwright, Laurie Fyffe. Fyffe's Beowulf in Afghanistan is a thought-provoking drama that ...

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The writer, a young ethnologist on her first field trip was studying old legends told by an old Indian in South Dakota. At one point, the Indian refused to tell any more stories until she told a white ...