Introduction / Enza De Francisci and Chris Stamatakis
EARLY MODERN PERIOD: Dialogues and Networks. Shakespeare, Florio, and Love's Labour's Lost / Giulia Harding and Chris Stamatakis
A Tale of Two Tamings: Reading the Early Modern Shrew Debate from a Feminist Transnationalist Perspective / Celia R. Caputi
Shakespeare and the Commedia dell'Arte / Robert Henke
The Unfinished in Michelangelo and Othello / Rocco Coronato
Shakespeare and Italian Republicanism / John Drakakis
"A kind of conquest": The Erotics and Aesthetics of Italy in Cymbeline / Subha Mukherji
EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES:Translation and Collaboration. The Eighteenth-Century Reception of Shakespeare: Translations and Adaptations for Italian Audiences / Sandra Pietrini
Shakespeare's Reception in Nineteenth-Century Italy: Giulio Carcano's Translation of Macbeth / Giovanna Buonanno
Verdi's Shakespeare: Musical Translations and Authenticity / Rene Weis
Eleonora Duse as Juliet and Cleopatra / Anna Sica
Representations of Italy in the First Hebrew Translations of Shakespeare / Lily Kahn
Through the Fickle Glass: Rewriting and Rethinking Shakespeare's Sonnets in Italy / Matteo Brera
TWENTIETH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT: Originality and Ownership. Giovanni Grasso: The Other Othello in London / Enza De Francisci
Shakespeare, Vittorini, and the Anti-Fascist Struggle / Enrica Maria Ferrara
Hamlet's ghost: The Rewriting of Shakespeare in C. E. Gadda / Giuseppe Stellardi
The rest which is not silence: Shakespeare and Eugenio Montale / Camilla Caporicci
Giorgio Strehler's Il gioco dei potenti: A Shakespearean Master finds his Voice / Mace Perlman
Shakespeare behind Italian Bars: The Rebibbia Project, The Tempest, and Caesar must die / Mariangela Tempera
Shakespeare, Tradition, and the Avant-garde in Chiara Guidi's Macbeth su Macbeth su Macbeth / Sonia Massai and Chiara Guidi
Afterword: Shakespeare, an infinite stage / Paolo Puppa.