Alice EquestriAlice Equestri is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Padua, Italy and former Marie Sklodowska-Curie researcher at the University of Sussex. She has published two monographs: Literature and Intellectual Disability in Early ModernEngland: Folly, Law, and Medicine 1500-1640 (2021; winner of the AIA Junior Book Prize 2023) and The Fools of Shakespeare's Romances (2016). Her essays have appeared in venues including Studies in Philology, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, Renaissance Studies, Notes and Queries, Disability Studies Quarterly and Cahiers Élisabéthains. Her research interests include folly and intellectual disability in Early Modern English Literature, Shakespeare, Robert Armin, English translations or adaptations of Italian novellas, and law and literature. Read More Read Less