The Modern World between Them: Dante’s Monologues and Shakespeare’s Soliloquies

Robert Pogue Harrison, Emeritus Professor of French and Italian at Stanford University
Class of 1932 Short-Term Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of French and Italian

In this lecture, Robert Pogue Harrison argues that the monologues in Dante’s Inferno are in some ways more “modern” in their psychology than the soliloquies in Shakespeare’s tragedies.

Co-sponsored by the Humanities Council.