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    A Study Guide for Beowulf
    A Study Guide for Beowulf
    A Study Guide for Beowulf
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    A Study Guide for Beowulf

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    A Study Guide for Beowulf,' "" excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Epics for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Epics for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 8, 2015
    ISBN9781535819350
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      Introduction

      The Old English poem Beowulf follows its main character from heroic youth to heroic old age.

      Beowulf saves a neighboring people from the monster Grendel; eventually becomes the king of his own people; and dies defending them from a dragon. It is a great adventure story and a deeply philosophical one. Scholars differ over the poem's original purpose and audience, but Beowulf probably appealed to a wide audience and garnered a range of responses. Beowulf survives in one manuscript, which is known as British Library Cotton Vitellius A. 15. At least one scholar believes the manuscript is the author's original, but most scholars believe it is the last in a succession of copies. Beowulf may have been written at any time between about 675 CE and the date of the manuscript, about 1000 CE.

      No one knows where the manuscript was before it surfaced in the hands of Laurence Nowell in the sixteenth century. An

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