A one-man show that Glover began performing in 1981, and of which he gave his last performance in 2015. The 1981 date is documented in Glover's Beowulf (Far Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Alan Sutton, 1987), p. 16:

The first performance of Julian Glover's Beowulf was given at the Theatre Room, Bretforton Grange, on 5 September 1981, and was premiered in London at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith in July of the following year.

The conclusion of his performances in dated to 2015 by Breeze, p. 226 (see Scholarship, below). A filmed version of the performance was issued on VHS tape in 1983. As the 1983 video credits and the title page of the 1987 book version indicate, the text was adapted by Glover chiefly from the translations of Michael Alexander and Edwin Morgan. The following paragraph, based on examination of the 1987 book, presumes that that publication accurately reflects the nature of the performance script that Glover began using in 1981.

Glover's version is considerably shorter than the original, as he limits it for the most part to the monster-fighting storyline. After choosing the parts to include, Glover's general procedure is to lightly adapt Alexander's 1973 translation, usually changing Alexander's wording only slightly (such as to smooth a transition where some lines are omitted), but also working in occasional lines and phrases from Morgan where Glover found these particularly striking. For example, at Beowulf ll. 96-97a, Glover uses Morgan's "Loaded the acres of the world in the jewelwork / Of branch and leaf" instead of Alexander's "furnished forth the face of Earth / with limbs and leaves"; at Beowulf ll. 112-14a, he selects Morgan's "Kobolds and gogmagogs, lemures and zombies / And the brood of titans that battled with God ages long" in lieu of Alexander's "ogres and elves and evil shades— / as also the Giants, who joined in long / wars with God"; and at Beowulf ll. 162b-63, Glover gives Morgan's "what man's knowledge / can map the gliding ground of demon and damned?" in place of Alexander's "Men know not / where hell's familiars fleet on their errands!" In all, Glover's prologue section—which extends to l. 193 of the poem—follows Alexander closely with 5 or 6 interjections of Morgan's wording, and this proportion seems consistent throughout.

• Steven J. A. Breeze, Performance in Beowulf and Other Old English Poems (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2022).

Not in MO2.

Note in Julian Glover, Beowulf (Far Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire: A. Sutton, 1987), p. 16.