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It's All Plot: An Overview Of The Fifth Circle Of Wrath

It's All Plot: An Overview Of The Fifth Circle Of Wrath

FromWalking With Dante


It's All Plot: An Overview Of The Fifth Circle Of Wrath

FromWalking With Dante

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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
Feb 10, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In almost every episode of WALKING WITH DANTE, we take a passage from (so far) INFERNO and analyze it, talk through it, look at some of the interpretive knots. But in this episode, I'd like for you to hear (and I hope enjoy) the storytelling that's going on.
To that end, in this episode I read all of the fifth circle of wrath in INFERNO, from Canto VII: Line 97 all the way to Canto IX: Line 106. I'd like you to hear it as a story, as a narrative, as rising and falling action, as all those things that we associate with good storytelling.
Yes, we'll come back to all of it passage by passage. We'll go back to Canto VIII in the next episode and pick it up from there. But for now, sit back and take in the story. I think it might actually be some of the most important "work" you can do in COMEDY.
Released:
Feb 10, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Ever wanted to read Dante's Divine Comedy? Come along with us! We're not lost in the scholarly weeds. (Mostly.) We're strolling through the greatest work (to date) of Western literature. Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as I take on this masterpiece passage by passage. I'll give you my rough English translation, show you some of the interpretive knots in the lines, let you in on the 700 years of commentary, and connect Dante's work to our modern world. The pilgrim comes awake in a dark wood, then walks across the known universe. New episodes every Sunday and Wednesday.