Hello, listeners, and welcome to Season 5, Episode 3 of A Teenager’s Take on Shakespeare!

In this episode, I talk with Dr Darren Freebury-Jones about his monograph ’Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers’, spanning Thomas Kyd, John Lyly, John Fletcher, and, of course, the great Bard himself.

Dr Darren Freebury-Jones is author of the monographs: Reading Robert Greene: Recovering Shakespeare’s Rival (Routledge), Shakespeare’s Tutor: The Influence of Thomas Kyd (Manchester University Press), and Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers (Manchester University Press). He is Associate Editor for the first critical edition of The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd since 1901 (Boydell and Brewer). He has also investigated the boundaries of John Marston’s dramatic corpus as part of the Oxford Marston project and is General Editor for The Collected Plays of Robert Greene (Edinburgh University Press). His findings on the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries have been discussed in national newspapers such as The Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Observer, and The Independent as well as BBC Radio. In 2023 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of his contributions to historical scholarship.

You can find Darren through his website darrenfj.wordpress.com, where you can find a list of his publications and other endeavours.

Enjoy!