Dr Enza De Francisci is Lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Glasgow and Programme Director of the Glasgow-Nankai (China) double-degree. She has published on theatre translation in peer-reviewed journals, including Italian Studies, The Italianist, Modern
Language Review, and Pirandello Studies, for which she edits theatre reviews. Recent publications include her monograph, A “New” Woman in Verga and Pirandello: From Page to Stage (Oxford: Legenda, 2018), and co-edited volume Shakespeare and Italy:
Transnational Exchange from the Early Modern Period to the Present (London-New York: Routledge, 2017).
Enza has been an AHRC-funded Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum and has worked as a Linguistic Consultant and Public Lecturer at the National Theatre (London) during a recent production of Pirandello’s Liolà in a new version by Tanya Ronder, directed by Richard Eyre, and Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend by April De Angelis.
Stories stand the test of time through translation, be it from one language to another, or from one genre to another. Stories survive according to the...
To date, the most popular Italian literary text to be translated worldwide is not by Dante, Boccaccio or Petrarch, but by Carlo Collodi: his Pinocchio...
Don Juan is a well-known legend whose legacy has remained owing predominantly to all its many variations and adaptations. This Spanish tale has been t...
Federica Nardacci’s monologue brings to life the thoughts and feelings of Maria Callas’s butler, Ferruccio Mezzadri. Through a stream-of-consciousness...
Ibsen’s A Doll’s House is a play which has had audiences speak about for centuries since its first performance in 1879, where his iconic protagonist N...
Faithful Ruslan marks the centenary of the Russian revolution. To celebrate this occasion, Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre placed centre stage Stalin’s Gul...
Verdi was a great admirer of Shakespeare, and would significantly contribute to the canonization of the Elizabethan writer in nineteenth-century Italy...
In commemoration of the 450th anniversary of Monteverdi’s birth, this exceptional staging of L’incoronazione di Poppea brings to life the heated, sens...
Inspired by the recent production of Tarantella,
written, directed and produced by Elizabeth Bowe
and staged at the Omnibus Theatre on Friday 2nd Se...
The special event ‘Sicilian Splendour’ at the British Museum opened its doors to an evening devoted to Sicily’s culture. Scattered around the museum w...
