English Faculty Shakespeare Webinar with Emma Smith: The Comedy of Errors

In this free webinar series, Shakespeare expert Professor Emma Smith will be discussing a different Oxford World's Classics Shakespeare title each month. Emma will be in conversation with the writers of the new introductions specially commissioned for this series, discussing the play and how we might approach it differently in the twenty-first century. In this webinar, Emma discusses The Comedy of Errors with Ian Burrows, Fellow in English, Clare College, University of Cambridge. The event is run by Oxford University's English Faculty in collaboration with Oxford University Press, the publishers of the Oxford World's Classics series. Browse upcoming and previous events in the series on the English Faculty website: https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/shakespe... Emma Smith is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Hertford College, Oxford, and the General Editor for the Oxford World’s Classics Shakespeare. She has written the OUP book Shakespeare’s First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book (2nd edition, 2023), and the Sunday Times bestseller This Is Shakespeare (2019), and is currently editing the new Arden Twelfth Night. More about Oxford World's Classics: Oxford World’s Classics are proud to be publishing new editions of the works of Shakespeare. Each new volume uses the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition and combines fresh, new scholarship from leading researchers with authoritative texts and comprehensive notes to offer the ultimate guide to Shakespeare’s work. Learn more: https://pages.oup.com/trade/collectio...