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. Her lectures are available as podcasts Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre[1] and Approaching Shakespeare.[2]
Life and career
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.[3] In 2016 she authenticated a new copy of Shakespeare's First Folio found at Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute.[4]
With Laurie Maguire of Oxford University she published an 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.[5] She was a script advisor to Josie Rourke’s 2018 film Mary Queen of Scots.[6]
Bibliography
Selected publications
- 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. Dr Emma Smith, Dr Andy Kesson (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)[7]
Oxford podcasts
References
- ^ [1] Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre podcasts
- ^ [2] Approaching Shakespeare podcasts
- ^ [3] Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio
- ^ Coughlan, Sean (2016-04-07). "Shakespeare Folio 'astonishing' find". BBC News. Retrieved 2017-09-16.
- ^ Pollack-Pelzner, Daniel (2017-02-19). "The Radical Argument of the New Oxford Shakespeare". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2017-09-16.
- ^ [4] Mary Queen of Scots on IMDb
- ^ Smith, Emma. Women on the Early Modern Stage: A Woman Killed with Kindness, The Tamer Tamed, The Duchess of Malfi, The Witch of Edmonton. Methuen Drama (2014) ISBN 9781408182338