World Classics & Renowned Playwrights

World literature classics have provided enduring archetypes, structural innovations, and philosophical depth across Western and global literary canons. Ancient Greek epic poetry began with Homer's 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey' in the 8th century BCE, dramatizing the Trojan War and Odysseus's journey. Dante Alighieri composed 'The Divine Comedy' (Divina Commedia) in 14th-century Italy, establishing the Italian vernacular across Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Miguel de Cervantes published 'Don Quixote' (1605, 1615), widely regarded as the first modern European novel, satirizing chivalric romances. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe led German Romanticism with his dramatic masterpiece 'Faust'. In 19th-century Russia, Leo Tolstoy wrote 'War and Peace', and Fyodor Dostoevsky explored existential morality in 'Crime and Punishment' and 'The Brothers Karamazov'.