Dante: Inferno to Paradise is a two-part, four-hour documentary film chronicling the life, work and legacy of the great 14th century Florentine poet, Dante Alighieri, and his epic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, one of the greatest achievements in the history of Western Literature. The ambition of the film, which combines powerful dramatic reenactments, colorful interviews with […]
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A great resource for the reading of ancient Greek plays can be found in the posts tagged at Sententiae Antiquae as Reading Greek Tragedy Online. The Reading Greek Tragedy Online discussion and reading of the play for The Persians can be found here. A reading and discussion of Aeschylus’ The Persians (translated by Ian Johnston). […]
Join the world’s largest Dante reading group. Starting September 8th and ending on Easter 2022, we will read three cantos a week, learning from teachers who know and love Dante well. (Full site coming soon) — 100 Days of Dante Baylor University’s Honors College is hosting what it call “the world’s largest Dante reading group” […]
I’m a little late in posting this, but here is the 2020 Fall Semester Dean’s Lecture Series at St. John’s College. There have been two lectures already, one on Hesiod and one on Montaigne. Hopefully the transcripts for these will be available soon at their archives site (link on the Lecture list page). Speaking of […]
If you enjoy watching out of the ordinary movies and haven’t watched the MUBI streaming service, I highly recommend checking it out. I really enjoyed watching Werner Herzog’s Family Romance, LLC and several other movies over the past couple of weeks. One film I wanted to highlight is The Portugese Woman, based on a Robert […]
On Amazon Prime I stumbled across a couple of films based on Bohumil Hrabal’s writings that are available for free to Prime members. First was The Snowdrop Festival, directed by Jiří Menzel. As I mentioned in the post, it’s a quirky, fun movie with a strong undertow of poignancy. Menzel doesn’t capture the full complexity […]
National Theatre Live has been making some of their broadcasts available on their YouTube channel. This week’s offering is Antony and Cleopatra, directed by Simon Godwin, starring Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo in the title roles. The recording can be played for free until 7pm UK time on Thursday 14 May 2020. This is one […]
Cynthia Haven had posted on Robert Harrison’s meetings on Boccacio’s The Decameron, the book that seems to all be the rage given the situation now. Her posts can be found here and here. If, like me, you missed the meetings, you can listen to them at his Entitled Opinions website: Pandemic, Dread, and Boccaccio’s Decameron […]
Once again, many thanks to Terry Teachout for directing me to American Shakespeare Center’s online productions. From his wsj.com article: To date I’ve watched “Much Ado About Nothing” and both installments of “Henry IV, ” all of which are part of ASC’s “Actors’ Renaissance” series, which takes Elizabethan-style authenticity a radical step further. These productions, […]
Many thanks once again for Terry Teachout’s post on Houston Alley Theatre’s production of 1984, available online through April 12. More information can be found at their website [Note: link no longer available], and the playbill can be found on issuu. I’ve found Terry’s blog extremely informational and enjoyable. His posts in the last few […]
Many thanks to Terry Teachout for the article on Syracuse Stage’s video production of the stage play Amadeus by Peter Shaffer. As Teachout notes, Syracuse Stage’s revival of Peter Shaffer’s “Amadeus,” directed by Robert Hupp, is a thrilling staging of one of the best English-language plays of the 20th century, and it comes across online […]