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Who is Emma Smith?

Emma Smith is an eminent Shakespeare scholar. She’s steeped in the world of Shakespeare studies. And a while back it dawned on her: These quote-unquote “right” ways of experiencing or interpreting Shakespeare?...

What is Professor Emma Smith teaching on Shakespeare?

Professor Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a 2017 lecture on the early history play, Henry VI, Part 2. Professor Emma Smith lectures on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. Professor Emma Smith lectures on Shakespeare’s comedy All's Well That Ends Well.

Is there a book called this is Shakespeare by Emma Smith?

This Is Shakespeare, by Emma Smith. Pantheon, 2020. Want more? Browse our full list of Shakespeare Unlimited episodes. Is there a right way to interpret Shakespeare’s plays?

Where can I find Elizabeth Smith's lectures?

Her lectures are available as podcasts Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre and Approaching Shakespeare. Smith was educated at Abbey Grange school in Leeds and did her undergraduate degree at Somerville College, Oxford from 1988 to 1991.

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Who is Emma Smith in Shakespeare Unlimited?

From the Folger Shakespeare Library, this is Shakespeare Unlimited. I’m Michael Witmore, the Folger’s director. Emma Smith is an eminent Shakespeare scholar. She’s steeped in the world of Shakespeare studies.

Who is Emma Smith?

WITMORE: Dr. Emma Smith is Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Faculty of English and a Fellow of Hertford College at Oxford University in England. Her new book, This Is Shakespeare, was published in the US by Pantheon, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in 2020. She was interviewed by Barbara Bogaev.

What is the book called that Professor Smith wrote?

The book’s called This Is Shakespeare. And Professor Smith—who teaches at Oxford—came in recently to talk with us about it.

Who wrote the plays in a style that was actually designed to be open to interpretation?

Your interpretation is right. And maybe one of those other ones is right, too. In fact, according to Professor Smith, Shakespeare wrote these plays in a style that was actually designed to be open to interpretation.

Who is the producer of Voice Trax West?

Garland Scott is the associate producer. It was edited by Gail Kern Paster. Ben Lauer is the web producer. We had technical helped from Andrew Feliciano at Voice Trax West in Studio City, California, and Rich Woodhouse at Electric Breeze Audio Productions in Oxford, England.

Who interviewed Emma Smith?

We call this podcast episode “That’s Not My Meaning .”. Emma Smith is interviewed by Barbara Bogaev. BARBARA BOGAEV: Emma, your thesis that Shakespeare's broad appeal across cultures and centuries hangs on a concept with a wonderful, made up word—maybe not so made up—but you call it, " gap -i-ness".

Is the Taming of the Shrew a controversial play?

SMITH: “ The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays, and one of his most controversial. Everything, from the name of its heroine to its ideology of gender relations, is contested to the extent that it's impossible even to begin with a neutral synopsis of the play. Here's why it's impossible.

Who is the girl in Shakespeare and Girlhood?

Shakespeare and Girlhood. Among other subjects, scholar and author Deanne Williams discusses Richard II's Queen Isabella, who in real life was a young girl, and how that might inform the character in the play.

What are some myths about Shakespeare?

In a conversation that explores famous myths about Shakespeare and the larger ideas they suggest, this episode notes that Shakespeare's comedies frequently suggest that marriage means the end of male friendships — including in the two plays with two male characters in the title, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Two Noble Kinsmen, from near the beginning and the end of his career.

What plays did Shakespeare write in 1606?

An interview with James Shapiro about 1606, which he describes in his book The Year of Lea r, includes all three plays Shakespeare wrote that year, including Antony and Cleopatra.

What is the first folio of Shakespeare?

Creating Shakespeare's First Folio. The First Folio of Shakespeare includes one play, Troilus and Cressida, that was added so late to the book that it isn't even included in the Table of Contents. Learn more about the behind-the-scenes story of this famous book in a conversation with scholar Emma Smith, author of The Making of the First Folio.

How many countries did Shakespeare's Globe tour?

The Globe to Globe Hamlet Tour. Artistic director Dominic Dromgoole and executive producer Tom Bird discuss how Shakespeare's Globe staged Hamlet in 197 countries on a two-year tour, ending in 2016 on the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.

Who was the Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight?

Orson Welles and Shakespeare. This look at Orson Welles's Shakespeare films and other projects includes Welles as Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight, a monumental film that incorporates portions of Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, and other plays.

Who bought the books of Shakespeare?

Books and Reading in Shakespeare's England. The first known purchaser of any printed book by William Shakespeare was an Elizabethan bureaucrat, Richard Stonley, who bought Shakespeare's long racy poem Venus and Adonis. In this conversation, learn more about him and about the books that Shakespeare himself may have owned.

Who is Emma Smith?

Jump to navigation Jump to search. English academic, author, and Shakespeare 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, and worked with numerous theatre companies.

Who edited the Oxford Shakespeare edition?

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. Another article with Laurie Maguire won the 2014 Hoffman Prize. She was a script advisor to Josie Rourke’s 2018 film Mary Queen of Scots.

Where is the first folio of Shakespeare?

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 a new argument in 2012 that Shakespeare's play All's Well that Ends Well was a collaboration with Thomas Middleton.

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