Dr. Omry Smith is a Theatre researcher and Drama translator. He received his PhD degree with distinction from the Department of Theatre at Tel-Aviv University (2006), and is a graduate of the Nissan Nativ acting studio (1993). Smith teaches and researches a variety of subjects relating to the history of Western theatre: early modern Italian and English theatre, classical rhetoric in Shakespeare’s drama, and representations of the emotions on the English Renaissance stage.

Selected Works and Publications:

Books

The Medieval Morality Play of Everyman (Anonymous), translation, introduction and notes (Tel-Aviv: Hakibutz Hameuchad, 2003).

Reason Not: Emotional Appeal in Shakespeare’s Drama, Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, 2009.

Mandragola (Machiavelli), translation, introduction and notes (Jerusalem: Magness, 2015).

The Erudite Comedy: Three Comedies from the Italian Renaissance (Ludovico Ariosto, Bernardo Dovizi and Niccolò Machiavelli), translation, introduction and notes (Jerusalem: Magness, 2016).

Articles

“The most Lamentable Tragedy and Most Late Unification Indeed of Res and Verba: Words and Matter in Shakespeare’s King Lear”, Assaph: Studies in the Theatre 24, 2011, pp. 101-121.

“‘Venom to thy Venom’: Hamlet’s Revenge and the Late-Elizabethan Passion for Symmetry”, English Studies 100 (6), 2019, pp. 627-640.

Translation for the Theatre

La Calandra (Bernardo Dovizi, 1513), Directed by Michael Gurevitch, Jerusalem: Khan Theatre, 2013-2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-cqAwdsNNU&t=1182s

https://www.khan.co.il/archive/shows/show-synopsis1-132/