Team Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Dramatic Collaborations
22 April @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
We tend to think of Shakespeare as the singular genius, but he chose a form of writing that was always collaborative: with actors, with audiences, and, more often than you might think, with other dramatists too. This talk will cover some recent work on Shakespeare as a collaborator and discuss what difference it might make to the way we think about his achievement and reputation.
The talk will be followed by a celebratory toast and a slice of our traditional Shakespeare’s birthday cake!
Emma Smith is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Oxford. Her recent book This is Shakespeare was a Sunday Times bestseller; Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers was shortlisted for the Wolfson Prize in 2023. She was the Sam Wanamaker Fellow at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2023 and served as a consultant for BBC televisions’s three-part series Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius. She is editing Twelfth Night for the Arden Shakespeare, and working on a new book on Elizabethan artistic culture. Her new BBC Radio 4 series on books during the second world war will be broadcast in the summer for the 80th anniversary of 1945.
