Marilena Parlati is Associate Professor of Literatures in English at the University of Calabria. She has published various essays on Jacobean theatre and early modern English and Italian literature, plus a monograph on John Webster's tragedies in connection with conduct and courtly literature of the sixteenth century (Infezione dell'arte, paralisi della memoria nelle tragedie di John Webster, 1998). Her other fields of research include late-Victorian popular fiction and theatre.
