Speaking of Shakespeare
Conversations about things Shakespearean, including new developments in Shakespeare studies and Shakespearean performance and education across the globe. These talks are also available on YouTube under the search term, 'Speaking of Shakespeare'. This series is made possible by institutional support from Aoyama Gakuin University (AGU) in central Tokyo and is also supported by a generous grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
Speaking of Shakespeare
SoS # 65 | Darren Freebury-Jones: 'Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers'
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Darren Freebury-Jones about his recent book, Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers: How Early Modern Playwrights Shaped the World’s Greatest Writer. This is Darren’s second appearance on the series. Early he has spoken about two more recent books, the first entitled ‘Reading Robert Green: Recovering Shakespeare’s Rival’ and the second is entitled ’Shakespeare’s Rival: The Influence of Thomas Kyd.’ The talk is at: https://youtu.be/tX59cYTUCgE?si=cs2Ac3d8w5-Eqeyg
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:54 - ‘Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers’
00;04:20 - Digital attribution and reckoning
00:08:31 - The ethics of borrowing
00:16:08 - Shakespeare as solitary genius?
00:18:10 - Collaboration in Shakespeare’s time
00:22:02 - Shakespeare’s with contemporaries
00:36:26 - Ben Jonson
00:39:26 - Memory, the skill of remembering
00:43:57 - How is Shakespeare different from other playwrights?
00:51:26 - Darren’s current and future work
00:59:20 - The public face of an editor