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 ...

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.

How are religion, literature and politics linked? According to Antonio Di Grado in one of his last works (Anarchia come romanzo e come fede), anarchy seems to be the fil rouge which connects them.

The Milholt’s volume aims to re-evaluate the works of the first half of the Italian Eighteen hundred century, and especially of authors such as Mercadante, Pacini and Ricci, now virtually disappeared from theaters around ...

In his absorbing and erudite volume Vincenzo Patanè examines the frenzied life and prolific literary production of the Romantic poet Lord Byron.

Commedia dell’Arte comes alive when played passionately by characters with an unquenchable need. Commedia is a theatre of contrasts. It moves from Order to Disorder, Chaos, Disaster and back to Order and a Happy Ending. ...

Purpose of this article is to provide a new interpretation of the figure of Tennessee Williams in the light of his debt to Chekhov. After a brief introduction on the consonances between the two playwrights, we focus on the ...