Accessible and informative account of Dante's great Commedia: its purpose, themes and styles, and its reception over the centuries.

A fully updated 2007 edition of this useful and accessible coursebook on Dante's works, context and reception history.

This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginni

As one of the supreme Christian epic poems, Dante's Divine Comedy provides not only far more personality and emotional depth than the pagan epics, it also opens

This collection of specially commissioned essays by academics and practising psychoanalysts, first published in 2003, explores key dimensions of Jacques Lacan's