S0S #65 | Darren Freebury Jones

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. Earlier 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:    • SoS #50 | Darren Freebury-Jones   [SEGMENTS] 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