Emma Smith
Emma Smith
Publications 2017
‘Reading Shakespeare’s Stage Directions’, forthcoming, Dustagheer and Woods
‘Henry V in the 21st Century’, forthcoming in Britland and Cottegnies
Recent and forthcoming talks 2017-8
10 November, ‘Shakespeare’s Southwark Reformation’, College of Canons, Southwark Cathedral
12 November, Historicisms, Theory Day School, Oxford University Department for Continuing Education
15 November, Drama Graduate Seminar, University of Exeter
7 December, Hamlet, Cherwell School Oxford
22 January, Hamlet, Twyford CE School, Ealing
31 January, King Lear, Holland Park School
2 March, Henn Lecture, St Catharine’s Cambridge
9-10 March, ‘Dramatic character in the early modern theatre’, University of Fribourg
13 March, introducing Macbeth at the Vue Oxford: tickets
18 April, ‘Reading Shakespeare when he was new’, Arts Society, Leeds
23 April, ‘#MeToo: Measure for Measure in the 21st century’, Hull Shakespeare Lecture
Coming in July 2018; Society for Renaissance Studies, Sheffield; Marlowe Society of America, Wittenberg; Nashe conference, Newcastle
NEWS 24 January 2018
•New Humanities Commons site
•New publication: delighted to be one of the contributors to Sarah Dustagheer and Gill Woods’ Stage Directions and Shakespearean Theatre!
•Shakespeare’s First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book paperback coming soon from OUP
•New lectures added to ‘Approaching Shakespeare’ (26 lectures) and ‘Not Shakespeare’ (11 lectures) on Apply Podcasts or via Oxford podcasts
•some short Shakespeare articles online as part of the British Library’s excellent Discovering Literature site
I work at Hertford College as Fellow and Tutor in English, and at the University of Oxford as Professor of Shakespeare Studies in the Faculty of English Language and Literature.
My research and teaching interests are in Shakespeare’s reception in print, performance, and criticism, and in early modern theatre.