Emma Smith
Professor Emma Smith teaches early modern drama at Hertford College, Oxford, with a special focus on Shakespeare. She has written widely on both early modern drama and Shakespeare, including The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare, The Cambridge Guide to Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s First Folio – Four Centuries of an Iconic Book, 30 Great Myths about Shakespeare, the Arden Student Guide: Macbeth, Language and Writing, and most recently the Sunday Times bestseller This Is Shakespeare, published by Penguin.
She is the editor of a collection of Five Revenge Tragedies, and her introduction to John Webster appeared in the program for the 2019 Almeida production of The Duchess of Malfi. A fuller introduction to the play is published in the anthology Women on the Early Modern Stage, a New Mermaids publication from 2014.
She is a reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement, and her lectures on Shakespeare and his contemporaries are also available as podcasts from ox.ac.uk or on Apple podcasts.
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Recommended Play(s)
In episode 17 Emma recommended The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd
In episode 38 she recommended Antigone by Jean Anouilh