WE have been so long accustomed to think of Dante chiefly as the poet of The Divine Comedy, and of Shakespeare chiefly as the dramatist of the Plays, that we do not always remember that they are also ...

In this lecture, Robert Pogue Harrison argues that the monologues in Dante’s Inferno are in some ways more “modern” in their psychology than the soliloquies in Shakespeare’s tragedies. University ...

T.S. Eliot once claimed that Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them, and “there is no third.” Whether or not this is true – I would have added Virgil and Cervantes, Goethe and Proust, and ...

T.S. Eliot said: “Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.” Hamlet speaks of the afterlife as “the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.” Dante ...