Daniela Guardamagna is Professor of English Literature at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata". Her main areas of research are Jacobean drama, contemporary drama (Beckett in particular), utopias and dystopias. She has translated for both cinema and theatre, and has adapted the BBC versions of Othello, Macbeth and The Tempest for Italian television (RAI). Her publications include: Il teatro giacomiano e carolino (2002), La narrativa di Aldous Huxley (1990), Analisi dell'incubo. L'utopia negativa da Swift alla fantascienza (1980), and several essays published in Italy and abroad, on utopias, dystopias, Beckett, and Jacobean theatre.