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65 results found for '"Emma Smith"' in Person.
All’s Well That Ends Well (2017 Audio)
- Series
- Approaching Shakespeare
Married to Bertram, who chooses to go to war rather than recognise her as his wife; Helena shows equal determination when he challenges her to become pregnant by him. Bertram is undone when Helena triumphs...
Henry IV, Part 2 (2017 Audio)
- Series
- Approaching Shakespeare
Following the loss of England’s French territories, Henry VI is plagued by power struggles, insubordination and threats to his monarchy. Part of a trilogy of plays, Emma Smiths asks whether it’s still...
Two Gentlemen of Verona, The (2017 Audio)
- Series
- Approaching Shakespeare
The 2017 series of Shakespeare lectures concludes with an exploration of one of the Bard’s early comedies.
First Folio Road Trip (2016 Radio)
- Series
- Sunday Feature
- Producer
- Beaty Rubens
Radio broadcast. Professor Emma Smith travels across Britain and to France and follows the story of seven of the 750 original copies of the First Folio to learn how Shakespeare’s work was disseminated.
"This Precious Book" (2016 Audio)
aka: Creating Shakespeare’s First Folio
- Series
- Shakespeare Unlimited
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Oxford, and the author of The Making of the First Folio, authenticated the First Folio that was...
BBC Proms 2016 [21/08/2016] (2016 Radio)
- Series
- BBC Proms 2016
- Director
- Bijan Sheibani
- Producer
- Zahid Warley
BBC Proms concert live from the Royal Albert Hall. In the second half the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs a semi-staged performance of Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream conducted by...
Memorialising Shakespeare: The First Folio and Other Elegies (2016 Video)
- Series
- The Bodleian Libraries (Bodcasts)
Video podcast. Emma Smith (Professor of English Literature, Oxford), gives a talk on Shakespeare memorials. Ben Jonson wrote in 1623 that Shakespeare ‘art a Moniment, without a tombe/ And art alive still,...
Myths About Shakespeare (2015 Audio)
- Series
- Shakespeare Unlimited
- Producer
- Richard Paul
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Even if you’re not a Shakespeare scholar, there are things you have learned about Shakespeare and his plays throughout your life - that it’s bad luck to say...
Timon of Athens (2015 Audio)
- Series
- Approaching Shakespeare
A podcast lecture series focusing on a single play by Shakespeare. Emma Smith concludes the series with a lecture on Timon of Athens.
Julius Caesar (2015 Audio)
- Series
- Approaching Shakespeare
A podcast lecture series focusing on a single play by Shakespeare, and employing a range of different approaches to try to understand a central critical question about it. Rather than providing overarching...