Theatre Neapolitan Style introduces five one-act plays by Eduardo De Filippo to English-speaking readers and audiences for the first time. Both individually and collectively, these works bring into clear focus the atmosphere and environment of pre- and post-World War II Naples. At the same time they offer the reader/spectator startling glimpses into unforgettable lives and situations glimpses that record De Filippos favorite emblems with marvelous clarity: a Neapolitan setting; a Neapolitan family; a Neapolitan commedia figure.

Mimi Gisolfi D'Aponte is Professor Emerita of Theatre at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Her ongoing scholarship concerns Italian theater, particularly during the twentieth century and with special emphasis on the work of Eduardo De Filippo. Professor D'Aponte is a contributing editor to Western European Stages and a board member of the Pirandello Society of America. She and her husband, Nello D'Aponte, translated Andrea Perruccis La cantata dei pastori as Sheperds Song (1982). Her work on Italian ritual theatre was published in Italian: Teatro Religioso e rituale della Penisola Sorrentina and la Costiera Amalfitana (1984). She and Jane House translated Federico Tozzi's LIncalco as The Casting, anthologized in Twentieth-Century Italian Drama (1995). Her sampling of New York City's festivals, Celebration City! (1997) was written with Laura Hanson. Professor D'Aponte edited and introduced Seventh Generation: An anthology of Native American Plays (1999).