Prof. Fernando Cioni

Biography

Fernando Cioni is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Florence. His research interests include Shakespeare, editing, Shakespeare appropriations and remediation, English theatre. He has co-edited with Keir Elam A Civil Conversation: Anglo-Italian Literary and Cultural Exchange in the Renaissance (2003), and with Virginia Mason Vaughan and Jacqulyne Bessel Speaking Pictures (2010).  He is the author of a fully annotated edition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with translation into Italian (2024), a stage history of Shylock (2018) and a Guide to A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2022). He is Head of the PhD Program in Comparative Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Florence.

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