Shakespeare Survey 73: Shakespeare and the City

About Joshua JippKaren H. JobesRobert Yarbrough

Emma Smith is Director of English Studies at Hertford College Oxford. She has a broad range of Shakespearean expertise in terms of performance criticism and the preparation of textual editions and has written for students theatregoers and scholars. Her list of publications includes a performance edition of King Henry V (Cambridge 2002). She co-edited The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy (Cambridge 2010). For undergraduate readers she wrote The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare (Cambridge 2007) and The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide (Cambridge 2012). More recently she has turned her attention to the cultural history of the First Folio and published a book with the Bodleian Library to accompany the 2016 touring exhibition; in the same year she published The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's First Folio (Cambridge 2016).