Imagine a world with no Macbeth, no Tempest and no Twelfth Night. Without the First Folio, published 400 years ago this year, those plays may have been lost to history. To mark its anniversary, Bell Shakespeare is presenting three plays from the First Folio in their 2023 season, starting with a new production of Macbeth directed by the company's artistic director, Peter Evans. 

For further insight into the publication and importance of the First Folio, we're joined by Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Oxford. She's the author of Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book.