Shakespeare's Music: Dr Simon Smith

Dr Simon Smith's research covers all aspects of early modern culture, focusing particularly on drama, music, playhouse culture, and historical sense-scapes. His monongraph Musical Response in the Early Modern Playhouse, 1603-1625 (CUP, 2017) won the Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award and the University English Book Prize. As Early Modern Music Research Associate of Shakespeare’s Globe Smith provided historical music research for various productions including 'Original Practices' stagings of Richard III and Twelfth Night. He also provided historical music research and historical theatre research for the BBC adaptation of Wolf Hall.