Research Activities

Annamaria Cascetta’s main areas of research are:

  • History of Italian theatre during the Baroque period and the eighteenth century with particular reference to the Milan area;
  • Theory and history of tragedy with specific attention to its modern declension and relation with the past;
  • Analysis of the works of contemporary playwrights such as Luigi Pirandello, Samuel Beckett and Giovanni Testori;
  • Theory, history and critical analysis of performative theatre of the twenty-first century.