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Citings & Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary and Popular Culture

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Ruth Virkus and Brenna Jones, "Dawn's Inferno -- A Divine Comedy" (2009)

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"Dawn's Inferno - A Divine Comedy Part way through her life's journey, Dawn Ahlgren finds herself in a dark wood... Darkwood, MN. Returning to her hometown for her ten-year high school reunion, Dawn is trapped in the Inferno Bar & Grill, surrounded by classmates determined to prove that Hell is indeed other people. Based on The Inferno by Dante Alighieri, Dawn's Inferno is an innovative and hilarious update of Dante's classic trip through Hell, re-invented as another kind of divine comedy."

The Flower Shop Project Theatre, Minneapolis, MN
http://theflowershopproject.com/wp/

Performances at the Bryant Lake Bowl Theatre, July 9-25, 2009
Minneapolis, MN

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This experimental website, inspired by students of Arielle Saiber’s “Dante’s Divine Comedy” course, has been built to archive occurrences of Dante and his works in popular and contemporary culture of the twentieth century and beyond. The goals are twofold: 1) to provide a central access point for said references; and 2) to offer data that students and scholars of Dante can use to think about the Nachleben (“afterlife”) of Dante’s works in terms of reception theory, resonance, and cultural studies.

Background Image: Domenico di Michelino, Dante and His Comedy, 1465

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