Emma Smith (scholar)


Emma Smith is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Hertford College. She has published and lectured widely on Shakespeare and on other early modern dramatists. Her lectures are available as podcasts Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre and Approaching Shakespeare.

Life and career

As part of her work on Shakespeare’s First Folio, Smith worked with conservators, digital specialists and crowd-sourced funding on a Bodleian Library project to digitise a copy of the book. In 2016 she authenticated a new copy of Shakespeare's First Folio found at Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute.
With Laurie Maguire of Oxford University she published an argument in 2012 that Shakespeare's play All's Well that Ends Well was a collaboration with Thomas Middleton. The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of 2016, edited by Bourus et al, was the first printed edition of the play to accept this joint attribution. She was a script advisor to Josie Rourke’s 2018 film Mary Queen of Scots.

Selected publications

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