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Introduction to special issue on Webster (2018)
Journal Article
Bergstrom, C., & Nigri, L. (2018). Introduction to special issue on Webster. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 31(2), 146-150. https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2018.1466263

John Webster’s Theater of (Dis)obedience and Damnation: A collection of essays exploring the forms and functions of violence, evil, and social realities in Webster's drama.

Malcontented agents : from the novellas to Much Ado about Nothing and The Duchess of Malfi (2018)
Journal Article
Nigri, L. (2018). Malcontented agents : from the novellas to Much Ado about Nothing and The Duchess of Malfi. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 31(3), 176-181

Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing (c.1598) and Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi (c. 1613) are two plays in which Matteo Bandello’s portrayal of evil agents in his novellas exert a constant, even if not immediately obvious, influence. Remote from ea... Read More about Malcontented agents : from the novellas to Much Ado about Nothing and The Duchess of Malfi.

Introduction to Forms of Hypocrisy (2017)
Book Chapter
Nigri, L., & Tsentourou, N. (2017). Introduction to Forms of Hypocrisy. In L. Nigri, & N. Tsentourou (Eds.), Forms of hypocrisy in Early Modern England (1-14). New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Religious hypocrisy in performance : Roman Catholicism and the London stage (2017)
Book Chapter
Roman Catholicism and the London stage. In L. Nigri, & N. Tsentorou (Eds.), Forms of hypocrisy in Early Modern England (57-71). New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315265568-4

From the Medieval period to the Restoration, the hypocrite remained a remarkably popular figure, proving its resilience as an object of fascination not only in literature but in theological, political, and social debates. In the Tudor and Stuart peri... Read More about Religious hypocrisy in performance : Roman Catholicism and the London stage.