Faculty: Prof. Arthur Bahr
Schedule: MW 9:30-11
Translation and discussion of key passages of the Old English Beowulf and Judith, whose sole surviving copies were bound together over a thousand years ago. Other topics to be shaped by student interest but may include: hypermeter and theories of Old English meter more generally; Old English prose composition; the dating and religious perspective of Beowulf; and, depending on availability, workshopping the ongoing development of a chamber opera of Judith, sung in both modern and Old English. Prerequisite: one semester of Old English.
