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. 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, 2nd edition forthcoming 2023) and Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book (Oxford, 2016, 2nd edition forthcoming 2023). Her books This Is Shakespeare (Penguin, 2019) and Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers (Penguin 2022) draw on research to address a wider readership. Her current work includes editing Twelfth Night and Nashe's Summers Last Will and Testament, and working with Laurie Maguire on ideas of dramatic collaboration.
