Shakespeare Survey 77: Shakespeare''s Poetry

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Hannah Crawforth is Reader in Early Modern Literature at King's College London where she is also one of the founding members of the London Shakespeare Centre. She has published Etymology and the Invention of English in Early Modern Literature (Cambridge 2013) and the co-authored Shakespeare's London (2015). With Elizabeth Scott-Baumann she has collaborated extensively on Shakespeare's poems co-editing a collection of essays (The Sonnets: State of Play) and commissioning poets to respond to the Sonnets (for the Shakespeare400 commemorations in 2016). Elizabeth Scott-Baumann is Reader in Early Modern Literature at King's College London. Her first monograph Forms of Engagement: Women Poetry and Culture 16401680 (2013) explored how seventeenth-century women poets' uses of different poetic forms drew from the culture around them. With Hannah Crawforth she has collaborated extensively on Shakespeare's poems co-editing a collection of essays (The Sonnets: State of Play) and commissioning poets to respond to the Sonnets (for the Shakespeare400 commemorations in 2016). Emma Smith is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Hertford College Oxford. Her work focuses on the reception of Shakespeare in print performance and criticism and she has written for students enthusiasts theatregoers and scholars. She has co-edited The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy (Cambridge 2010) Marlowe in Context (Cambridge 2013) and The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's First Folio (Cambridge 2016). For undergraduate readers she wrote The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare (Cambridge 2007) and The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide (Cambridge 2012). Her work on the First Folio includes The Making of the First Folio (Bodleian Library 2016) and Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book (Oxford 2016). This Is Shakespeare (Penguin 2019) and Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers (Penguin 2022) address a wide readership. She is an associate scholar with the Royal Shakespeare Company and a regular speaker in schools literary festivals theatres libraries and book groups as well as in universities. She has contributed to radio and TV programmes and written extensively for newspapers and magazines including the New York Times the Telegraph the Observer and the Guardian.