Simon Smith is Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon and the Department of English Literature, University of Birmingham. He researches early modern drama, music and sensory culture. He is co-editor with Jackie Watson and Amy Kenny of The Senses in Early Modern England, 1558-1660 (2015), and his monograph, Musical Response in the Early Modern Playhouse, 1603-1625 (2017), won the Shakespeare's Globe Book Award and the University English Book Prize. His current book project examines playgoing, pleasure, and judgement in early modern England.