Presentation of the Special Issue on Fernando Pessoa’s Duke of Parma and Its Edition Project

The purpose of this article is to present The Duke of Parma, a Shakespearean tragedy that Fernando Pessoa worked on for a long time but never finished or published. The Duke of Parma, one of the author’s most extensive and important theatrical projects, has remained almost completely unpublished for various reasons, and very little has been written about it, although its existence has been known since 1966. This article presents this work’s status quaestionis and briefly announces and describes a multidisciplinary edition project financed by the University of Parma, the city in which the work is set. Finally, the main function of this article is to introduce the following articles that make up the dossier devoted to the subject in this issue of the journal, which deals with preliminary issues, from different disciplinary perspectives, related to the study and edition of the tragedy.