Emma Smith (scholar)

Emma Smith is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Hertford College. She has published and lectured widely on Shakespeare and on other early modern dramatists, and worked with numerous theatre companies. Her lectures are available as podcasts Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre^[1] and Approaching Shakespeare.^[2]

Life and career[]

Smith was educated at Abbey Grange school in Leeds and did her undergraduate degree at Somerville College, Oxford from 1988 to 1991. She was a Prize Fellow at All Souls College Oxford.^[3] As part of her work on Shakespeare’s First Folio, Smith worked with conservators, digital specialists and crowd-sourced funding on a Bodleian Library project to digitise a copy of the book.^[4] In 2016 she authenticated a new copy of Shakespeare's First Folio found at Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute.^[5]

With Laurie Maguire of Oxford University she published a new argument in 2012 that Shakespeare's play All's Well that Ends Well was a collaboration with Thomas Middleton. The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of 2016, edited by Bourus et al, was the first printed edition of the play to accept this joint attribution.^[6] Another article with Laurie Maguire won the 2014 Hoffman Prize. She was a script advisor to Josie Rourke’s 2018 film Mary Queen of Scots.^[7] She edits the Cambridge University Press journal Shakespeare Survey.

Bibliography[]

Selected publications[]

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• This Is Shakespeare (Pelican, 2019)
• Shakespeare’s First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book, (Oxford University Press, 2016)
• The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio, (Bodleian Publishing, 2015)
• The Elizabethan Top Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England. Eds. Andy Kesson and Emma Smith (Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2013) ISBN 9781472405876
• Five Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, Hamlet, Antonio's Revenge, The Tragedy of Hoffman, The Revenger's Tragedy (Penguin UK, 2012) ISBN 9780141960463
• The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide (Cambridge University Press, 2012) ISBN 9780521195232
• The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare (Cambridge University Press, 2007) ISBN 9781139462396
• Shakespeare's Comedies: a Guide to Criticism (Blackwell Guides to Criticism, 2003) ISBN 9780470776919
• Shakespeare's Histories: a Guide to Criticism (Blackwell Guides to Criticism, 2003) ISBN 9780470776896
• Shakespeare's Tragedies: a Guide to Criticism (Blackwell Guides to Criticism, 2003) ISBN 9780470776889
• Shakespeare in Production: Henry V (2000)
• Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedie (ed. 1998)
• Women on the Early Modern Stage: A Woman Killed with Kindness, The Tamer Tamed, The Duchess of Malfi, The Witch of Edmonton (2014)^[8]

Oxford podcasts[]

• Approaching Shakespeare
• Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

References[]

External links[]

• Emma Smith's website
• Bodleian Library's First Folio
• Hertford College, Oxford
• Oxford University Department for Continuing Education
• Literature Compass