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Review: Dante's Inferno; The Talented Mr Ripley: A Divine Comedy spoiled by its tragic lack of depth
From: The Scotsman
Date: 20060315
Author:Joyce McMillan
DANTE'S INFERNO, THE ARCHES, GLASGOW *** THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, DUNDEE REP ***
JOURNEYS to hell are all the rage in Scottish theatre this spring but, in our profoundly secular society, we never seem sure how seriously to take them. For Dante Alighieri - born in 1265, died in 1321 and one of the first great men of the Renaissance - hell was a serious business, if only because the concept had such a profound influence on the behaviour of the living. His great Inferno, written after he was exiled from his native Florence for upsetting a corrupt political establishment, was designed as a ...
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