Dante’s Inferno celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. Not that there’s been any fireworks or cake. Visceral Games’ 2010 hack-and-slash, which saw a crusader named Dante battle through the nine ...
Mary Jo Bang’s interpretation updates this 14th-century poem for 20th-century readers. Bang makes no attempt to pass herself off as a scholar of medieval Italian, and defends her unfamiliarity with ...
When I first published a version of Dante’s Inferno in 2014 set at the University of Essex, more than one reviewer pointed out the connection to Joyce. As with Ulysses, I wasn’t so much translating ...
One of the difficulties of any discussion of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” is that if anyone has actually read the critter, they most likely have read only the first third of it, that is, the “Inferno.” ...
“Purgatorio,” from Italian theater director Romeo Castellucci and the Societas Raffaello Sanzio theater company, is an experimental exploration of the meaning of suffering and forgiveness. The play, ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Dante: Purgatorio by Alejandro de la Costa and translated by Mark-Brian Sonna with ...
This 1465 fresco by Domenico di Michelino depicts Dante, holding a copy of The Divine Comedy, next to the entrance to hell. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons For centuries, Dante Alighieri’s Divine ...