Name Emma Smith | ||
Professor Emma J. Smith is lecturer in English at the University of Oxford, Professor of Shakespeare Studies, and a Fellow of Hertford College. She has published widely on Shakespeare and on other early modern dramatists.
Smith recently presented an extract of Robert Daborne's A Christian Turn'd Turk as part of a special Read Not Dead event at Shakespeare's Globe in the newly constructed Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Four directors and four scholars were teamed up with actors to present their arguments with selected scenes at a special hustings event on Thursday 29 May 2014. Emma was 'teamed up' with director David Oakes and actors Alex Lanipekun, Helen Bradbury, Adam Ewan and Matthew Houlihan. Theirs was the winning play and was performed on Sunday 5 October 2014 in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
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.
In 2016 she authenticated a new copy of Shakespeare's First Folio found on at Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute.
As part of Oxford University's open education project, Smith has written and presented two series of lectures released as podcasts, Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre and Approaching Shakespeare.