Alessandra Marzola taught English Literature at the universities of Bergamo, Parma and Torino. She has published books on Shakespeare (L’impossibile Puritanesimo di Amleto, 1984;  La parola del mercante, 1996;  Otello , 2015); on British Theatre in the 20th century;  on the rhetoric of economic discourse in Keynes’s General Theory;  on Englishness in the 20^th century;  on war, violence and national identity in 20^th century Britain. She is currently  the  co-editor of  Prismi  Book Series for  Mimesis Publishing House.