Margaret Rose is professor of History of English Theatre and English Literature at the University of Milan. Among her publications: Monologue Plays for Female Voices (1996), Political Satire and Reforming Vision in Eliza Haywood’s Works (1996), Storia del Teatro Inglese, l’Ottocento e il Novecento (2002). She is co-curator of A Theatre That Matters (2000), Caledonia Dreaming (2001), Scottish Italian Connections and Identities (2001), Caryl Churchill, un teatro necessario (2012). In the last decade she published many essays on theory and practice of theatrical translation and on contemporary theatre.