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.

Rossana M. Sebellin received her PhD from the University of Urbino "Carlo Bo", with a dissertation on Beckett's self-translation and the manuscripts of "Play" and Not I (and their French versions). She is currently working as lecturer at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata". She has published a book on Beckett's first attempt at drama ("Prior to Godot". Eleutheria di Samuel Beckett, 2006), another on Beckett's self-translation of "Play" and Not I (La doppia originalità di Samuel Beckett, 2008), and several articles on Beckett, Modernism and contemporary authors.