Shakespeare Survey 74: Shakespeare and Education

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).