Smith, Dr Emma

Job Title: CUF Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow
College: Hertford
Period/ Subject: Early Modern

Email address: emma.smith@hertford.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

My research combines a range of approaches to Shakespeare and early modern drama. I am currently working on the First Folio (1623), a project combining aspects of the history of the book, histories of reading, and the interpretation of Shakespeare on the page. My next project will be on the construction of character in printed drama. With Tamara Atkin at QMUL, I am working on the way cast lists in printed drama through the sixteenth and seventeenth century can inform our understanding of the experience of seeing, as well as reading, plays. I am part of a team of scholars revising the Riverside Shakespeare under the general editorship of Douglas Bruster. I am also interested in drama in performance, in the methodology of writing about theatre, in reviewing and its rhetoric, and in developing analogies between cinema, film theory, and early modern performance. Charlotte Brewer and I are working on a pilot project on the Oxford English Dictionary and Shakespeare, which we hope will develop into a website and associated publications on the issue of Shakespeare’s linguistic creativity and how it has been recorded. Pedagogy is important to me and I continue to work on readerly editions of early modern texts and on books, articles and lectures which disseminate research to the widest possible audience.

Teaching Areas:

Introduction to Literary Studies
Shakespeare
Paper 4 1509-1642

Recent Publications:

• The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare (2007)
• edited, with Garrett Sullivan, The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy (2010)

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