Presentation of this special issue dedicated to Dario Fo (1926-2016), Nobel Prize for Literature (1997).

This essay focuses on d’Annunzio’s Città morta and offers a reading conducted along three fundamental guiding lines: the perception of the “tragic sense”; the question of mythical memory and the experimental psychology ...

Francesco Saverio Salfi was a playwright between the XVIIIth and the XIXth centuries. The differences with the curia of Cosenza led him to move to Naples in 1785. He became very active in promoting the interests of the ...

In the essay is investigated the presence of Dante's poetry as inspiration for theatrical works in the European and Italian dramaturgy between the XIXth and XXth centuries.

An unusual journey in Eleonora Duse’s iconography finalized to the analysis of Edoardo Calandra’s images stored in a rare edition of Il Filo by Giuseppe Giacosa, published in 1883 by Casanova in Turin.