Event Title
Session 2-C: Special Session
Location
Taylor University, Metcalf 104
Start Date
30-5-2008 10:15 AM
Description
Dan Hamilton and Elizabeth King performing "The Pearl", a Medieval Mystery Play translated by J.R.R. Tolkien"
Pearl is a 15th-century Middle English poem featured in many courses in classic English literature. Lewis, Tolkien, and the majority of the Inklings were familiar with this ancient story of a man who loses his infant daughter to death and later is drawn into a vision where he sees her perfected in paradise. (Tolkien, indeed, thought highly enough of Pearl to offer his own poetic translation). While the original poem is not directly accessible to anyone who has not mastered Middle English, this version is a staged reading of a modern prose adaptation.
Moderator: Dan Bowell
Event Type
Presentation
Session 2-C: Special Session
Taylor University, Metcalf 104
Dan Hamilton and Elizabeth King performing "The Pearl", a Medieval Mystery Play translated by J.R.R. Tolkien"
Pearl is a 15th-century Middle English poem featured in many courses in classic English literature. Lewis, Tolkien, and the majority of the Inklings were familiar with this ancient story of a man who loses his infant daughter to death and later is drawn into a vision where he sees her perfected in paradise. (Tolkien, indeed, thought highly enough of Pearl to offer his own poetic translation). While the original poem is not directly accessible to anyone who has not mastered Middle English, this version is a staged reading of a modern prose adaptation.
Moderator: Dan Bowell