Dante's Divine Comedy can compel and shock readers: it combines intense emotion and psychological insight with medieval theology and philosophy. This volume will help instructors lead their students through the many dimensions historical, literary, religious, and ethical that make the work so rewarding and enduringly relevant yet so difficult.

"Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching Dante's Divine Comedy. Includes considerations of textual traditions, translations, the work's relation to classical works, gender and LGBTQ themes, visual arts, music, popular culture, theology, video games, the papacy, and influence. Gives syllabus suggestions for high school, undergraduate, graduate, and creative writing courses, and prison settings"--