Shakespeare Survey 74: Shakespeare and Education

About

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. Her list of publications includes a performance edition of King Henry V (Cambridge 2002). 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). Her book This Is Shakespeare (Penguin 2019) addresses a wider readership. Her current work includes editing Twelfth Night and Nashe's Summers Last Will and Testament and a book about books Portable Magic (forthcoming Penguin 2022).