Simonetta De Filippis is Professor of English Literature at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. She has published on twentieth-century novelists and playwrights (V. Woolf, J. Joyce, G.B. Shaw) but her main research interests focus on D.H. Lawrence and William Shakespeare. She is the editor of the Cambridge and the Penguin editions of Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays (1992, 1999) and of the volumes D. H. Lawrence and Literary Genres (2004) and D. H. Lawrence. New Critical Perspectives and Cultural Translation (2016). In the field of Shakespearean studies, she has published essays on The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, Pericles and The Tempest, and a book on Shakespeare’s “Last Plays” (Teatro come sperimentazione. Shakespeare e la scrittura romanzesca, 2003); she is the editor of the volume Shakespeare e il senso del tragico (2013).
