Maggie Gunsberg is Professor of Italian in the Department of Italian Studies at Manchester University, UK. Her research interests include women's writing, Italian cinema and Italian drama. She has published several books in these areas including" Playing with Gender: The Comedies of Goldoni"; "The Epic Rhetoric of Tasso: Theory and Practice"; "Gender and the Italian Stage: From the Renaissance to the Present "and "Patriarchal Representations: Gender and Discourse in Pirandello's Theatre,"