Introduction: Realising the Intangible
1 Instruments of the Poet: Exploiting the Old English Lexis
2 Multiformity and the Orality of Associative, Architectonic Poetics
3 Providence and Pleasure: Performance as Symbol
4 Storytelling in Beowulf and Meta-storytelling in Andreas
5 Wisdom and Power: Philosophies of Performance
6 Theme Songs: An English Tradition of Performance?
7 The Lure of the Lyre: Interpretation, Reenactment, and the Corpus
Conclusion: 'Poetic Performance'

Steven Breeze completed his PhD at Birkbeck, University of London. He is a tutor of medieval literature in the Humanities and Languages departments at the City Literary Institute, London.