HASTAC Commons | Emma Smith | Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/emmasmith/activity/ Activity feed for Emma Smith. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:37:02 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 9249d7522b934311adeec3a87285891c Emma Smith deposited On Editing in the group Shakespeare https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1666839/ Fri, 18 Oct 2019 16:28:10 +0000 Covering the changes in Shakespeare editorial theory and practice over the decades between the publication of the Oxford Shakespeare (1986) and the New Oxford Shakespeare (2016), this article surveys a range of modern texts with different rationales and aimed at different readerships. The article has three sections: the imagery associated with…[Read more]

]]> 0 98505543984966f2655a881396050443 Emma Smith deposited On Editing https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1666806/ Fri, 18 Oct 2019 13:44:32 +0000 Covering the changes in Shakespeare editorial theory and practice over the decades between the publication of the Oxford Shakespeare (1986) and the New Oxford Shakespeare (2016), this article surveys a range of modern texts with different rationales and aimed at different readerships. The article has three sections: the imagery associated with…[Read more]

]]> 0 f57492090ed9ed1f7d81c7c7def941f6 Emma Smith deposited Genres: Cinematic and Early Modern https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1629941/ Mon, 21 Jan 2019 22:12:16 +0000 My aim in this essay is to draw together two areas of study from cinema and theatre. The first is the theory of popular genres, their evolutionary cycle, and their role in the industrial development of Hollywood in the first half of the twentieth century, as explored by theorists and historians of cinema. The second is the early modern genre of…[Read more]

]]> 0 f534dd4da0a719e2825d725a96df6cb1 Emma Smith deposited 'An Unromantic Comedy' https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1617965/ Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:55:14 +0000 Programme Note for Donmar Theatre’s ‘Measure for Measure’, directed Josie Rourke, opens 10/18.

]]> 0 9e602bb13f776526b23ac3a9a097708c Emma Smith deposited Performing Relevance/ Relevant Performances: Shakespeare, Jonson, Hitchcock https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596987/ Sun, 14 Jan 2018 13:39:11 +0000 Engages with questions of historicism and presentism in the modern performance of early modern drama, and compares Ben Jonson with Alfred Hitchcock.

]]> 0 86f7a9cdddaef898bb38938351b9f7ea Emma Smith deposited Reading Shakespeare's Stage Directions https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596986/ Sun, 14 Jan 2018 13:31:39 +0000 Suggests that we should consider the stage directions in Shakespeare’s early texts, particularly the 1623 Folio, as snippets of narrative or free indirect discourse, rather than as clues to or for performance.

]]> 0 6414db82693308bf5732519fd34ae1c2 Emma Smith deposited A new corrected proof sheet from Shakespeare’s First Folio (1623) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596981/ Sun, 14 Jan 2018 13:22:55 +0000 Describes a previously unrecorded corrected proof sheet in a copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio (1623)

]]> 0 b37f749f7c63dd433ba73f326ac860fa Emma Smith deposited Richard II's Yorkist Editors https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596641/ Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:03:30 +0000 Discusses Shakespeare’s Richard II and questions of censorship and editorial control

]]> 0 a65d1b3c456cbf9274814f93cf05ac7f Emma Smith deposited Mirth that Fills the Veins with Blood https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596639/ Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:00:59 +0000 Review of the opening season of the Sam Wanamaker playhouse, London – The Knight of the Burning Pestle and The Duchess of Malfi

]]> 0 e41bae077039b6208996c281e157da2f Emma Smith deposited Was Shylock Jewish? https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596629/ Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:44:26 +0000 Discusses the invention of Shylock’s Jewishness as a reaction to Sir Henry Irving’s popular Victorian production

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