'Editing Shakespeare in/for the 21st Century' with Emma Smith

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Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies (650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002, Amherst MA)

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Professor Emma Smith's work is on Shakespeare - on stage, print, and in wider culture. She has written on Shakespeare's First Folio (1623) - the first collected edition of his plays - and is interested in ho w Shakespeare came to be so important. She is an associate scholar with th e Royal Shakespeare Company and a regular speaker in schools, literary festivals, theatres, libraries, and book groups as well as in universities. She has contributed to radio and tv programmes and written extensively for newspapers and magazines, including

The New York Times,

The Telegraph,

The Observer

and

The Guardian.

This lecture is held in honor of the late Normand Berlin, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research interests ranged broadly, from Shakespeare to Eugene O'Neill.