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Roberta Mullini
Roberta Mullini, former professor of English literature at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo, has published widely on English medieval and Shakespearean drama and theatre. She is also interested in theoretical issues connected to theatrical reception and to Shakespeare on-screen. She has written volumes on Shakespeare’s fools (1983 and 1997), on early modern plays (1992), on John Heywood (1997), on the material culture of the theatre (2003, with Romana Zacchi), on the First World War poetry (1977 and 2018), and on David Lodge’s novels (2001). She has also directed students’ performances of English interludes. Her book Healing Words: The Printed Handbills of Early Modern London Quacks (Peter Lang) was published in 2015. Parlare per non farsi sentire (Bulzoni, 2018) deals with the aside in Shakespearean plays. In 2002 she founded Linguæ &, a journal devoted to modern languages and cultures, of which she was editor-in-chief till 2021.
Contact: Dipartimento di Scienze della Comunicazione, Studi Umanistici e Internazionali, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Piazza Rinascimento 7, 61029 Urbino, Italy.