Shakespeare Survey 74: Shakespeare and Education

Emma Smith

Sep 2021 · Cambridge University Press

About this ebook

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies and of the year's major British performances. The theme for Volume 74 is 'Shakespeare and Education. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/collections/shakespeare-survey This fully searchable resource enables users to browse by author, essay and volume, search by play, theme and topic and save and bookmark their results.

About the author

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).