In 1983, a year before his death, Eduardo De Filippo translates in seventeenth-century Neapolitan language The Tempest by William Shakespeare (for the Einaudi publishing house in the series Writers translated by writers), ...

Is there a woman in Shakespeare? This might sound facetious, but it is not so outlandish in the context of boy actors. Elizabethan drama was after all designed and stagemanaged by men mostly for men. In this context, is ...

The contribution’s goal is to piece together the critical analysis project at the root of Squarzina’s directorial work on The Bacchae staging at Teatro Stabile in Genoa 1969. This preparatory path gives origin to a vast ...

Much has changed in Europe since the euphoria of the early nineteen-nineties of the last century: massive migration, pan-European Neo-Nazism, a new and active Moslem self-awareness, the resurgence of Russian Nationalism, ...

Two of Shakespeare’s sonnets, 8 and 128, stage an intermedial dialogue between music and poetry. This has challenged a number of modern composers to respond with their own art, among them Igor Stravinsky with a so far ...

The article examines some performances held in Rome in Anton Giulio Bragaglia’s Teatro degli Indipendenti (Theatre of Independents) by Russian artists (dancers, mimes, musicians and writers) during the Nineteen Twenties ...

Kracht’s first novel is about a trip through Germany. The first-person narrator, a semialcoholic young man belonging to the upper class, travels from the north to the south of the country; he spends his time going to parties ...

William Shakespeare’s Richard ii presents philosophical and political themes related to the history of England and a symbolical interpretation of the Wars of the Roses, on the one hand; and to the person of Queen Elizabeth ...