Darren Freebury-Jones

Authorship Attributions in Middleton’s Canon: Collaboration, Revision, and Shakespeare Ascriptions Thomas Middleton collaborated with Shakespeare on Timon of Athens, and there have been arguments for his revising hand in Macbeth, Measure for Measure, and, more recently, All’s Well that Ends Well...

This follows the first article, by @freeburian.bsky.social, which received online publication late last year: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Voices of the Past: Queer Influence and Poetic Salvage in Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre and Thomas Middleton’s Hengist, King of Kent Shakespeare and Wilkins’ Pericles and Middleton’s Hengist share a unique feature: a mediaeval author as choric figure. Choric figures are typically embodied plot devices rather than dramatic charac...

The second article from the forthcoming special issue I am guest editing on Shakespeare and Middleton has now been published open access.

Thanks to Shaun Nowicki for this piece 🙂

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A lovely account of a recent Shakespeare outreach session I ran.
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Spent this morning in Swansea, giving a talk on King Lear for A Level students.

Teachers interested in interactive outreach and online Shakespeare sessions available for GCSE and A Level can email darren_f.j@hotmail.co.uk

#TeamEnglish #GCSEShakespeare #ALevelEnglish

A lovely outreach session in Evesham on Much Ado About Nothing today.

Teachers interested in interactive outreach and online Shakespeare sessions available for GCSE and A Level can email darren_f.j@hotmail.co.uk

#TeamEnglish #GCSEShakespeare #ALevelEnglish

Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers Talk with Guest Speaker Dr Darren Freebury-Jones at Balliol College, Massey Room event tickets from TicketSource share.google/mBTs0EXXV1Ds...

Brand new podcast interview alert!

It was a delight to discuss my book SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS with Koel Chatterjee for The Shakespop Podcast.

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Chipping away at my latest book SHAKESPEARE & PANTO! Writing about going down to the woods...

TWLF: Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers – with Darren Freebury Jones - Manchester University Press

Looking forward to speaking about SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS for TUNBRIDGE WELLS LITERARY FESTIVAL.

TWLF: Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers – with Darren Freebury Jones

Monday 4th May
15:00
Trinity Theatre
Tunbridge Wells

Tickets here.

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Number of plays attributed to 16th-century playwright Thomas Kyd double in new edition Exclusive: Canon now includes domestic tragedy Arden of Faversham, which is attributed solely to Kyd and ‘not at all’ to Shakespeare

Publishing in April, The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd Volume Two, edited by Brian Vickers, suggests more plays should be attributed to the playwright. Read the article ➡️

A wild and whirling couple of weeks ahead, giving talks on Much Ado About Nothing in Worcestershire; King Lear in Swansea ; Dr Faustus in Stratford-upon-Avon; my book Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers in Oxford; and Shakespeare By Numbers in London!

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Number of plays attributed to 16th-century playwright Thomas Kyd double in new edition Exclusive: Canon now includes domestic tragedy Arden of Faversham, which is attributed solely to Kyd and ‘not at all’ to Shakespeare

In this interview with THE GUARDIAN, myself and Brian Vickers discuss the expansion of Thomas Kyd's canon and how his life and work intersect with Shakespeare and Marlowe.

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Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers – with Darren Freebury Jones | TWLF TicketingShakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers – with Darren Freebury Jones | TWLF Ticketing

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Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers Talk with Guest Speaker Dr Darren Freebury-Jones at Balliol College, Massey Room event tickets from TicketSource share.google/mBTs0EXXV1Ds...

YouTube video by Shakespeare & Friends Could Shakespeare have written his plays?

In the latest episode of SHAKESPEARE AND FRIENDS, Rachel Aanstad and I engage with the question: 'Could Shakespeare have written his plays?'

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Number of plays attributed to 16th-century playwright Thomas Kyd double in new edition Exclusive: Canon now includes domestic tragedy Arden of Faversham, which is attributed solely to Kyd and ‘not at all’ to Shakespeare

Number of plays attributed to 16th-century playwright Thomas Kyd double in new edition

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An interview I did for THE GUARDIAN about THE COLLECTED WORKS OF THOMAS KYD and my book SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS has just been published.

Enjoyed giving a talk on Shakespeare’s 'Macbeth' for GCSE students today.

Teachers interested in interactive outreach and online Shakespeare sessions available for GCSE and A Level can email darren_f.j@hotmail.co.uk

#TeamEnglish #GCSEShakespeare #ALevelEnglish

SHAKESPEARE BY NUMBERS - A free public talk
On 10th March at 5pm, @freeburian.bsky.social and I are doing a joint talk on how numbers influenced Shakespeare. The venue is the London Interdisciplinary School in Whitechapel. A limited number of seats available, message one of us if you'd like to come.

Heading to #RenSA26 this week? @rsaorg.bsky.social

Stop by table 210 to meet Senior Commissioning Editor
@mlhouston.bsky.social and browse #Renaissance and #EarlyModern #Literature and #History books.

Don't miss our #RenaissanceStudies reading list!
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A queer scrapbook
What's in a name?
Privatising humanity
Between the salt and the ash (new in paperback)
Downward spiral (new in paperback)
Shakespeare's borrowed feathers (new in paperback) @freeburian.bsky.social
Wildly different (new in paperback)
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FEBRUARY FLASH SALE 70% OFF - Manchester University Press For the next two weeks only, the following list of titles are 70% OFF as part of our February Flash Sale. Simply use discount code FLASH70 at checkout. Valid for UK customers only.

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Engaged with some brilliant questions from Sixth Formers studying Othello today.

Interactive outreach and online Shakespeare sessions available for GCSE and A Level.

📧 Enquiries: darren_f.j@hotmail.co.uk

#TeamEnglish #GCSEShakespeare #ALevelEnglish

Shakespeare and Kingship - Darren Freebury-Jones Talk | 1620s House and Garden Darren Freebury-Jones grapples with the big questions Shakespeare raises in his history plays.

👑 Shakespeare & Kingship
with Darren Freebury-Jones

🗓 Sunday 12 April
⏰ 6–7pm
🎟 £8

Power. Politics. The Crown.

The 1620s House and Garden, 
Manor Road, Donington le Heath, Coalville,
Leicestershire, LE67 2FW.

Book here.

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Lovely to discover that my book SHAKESPEARE'S TUTOR won Best Book with the Falstaff Awards for 2025 with PlayShakespeare.com.

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Nice to zoom into a classroom and discuss Othello with Year 13s today.

Teachers interested in booking online or outreach sessions on your Shakespeare text can drop me a line at my retro email:

Darren_f.j@hotmail.co.uk

I have some slots from April but they're filling up fast.

Volume 2 of THE COLLECTED WORKS OF THOMAS KYD is now finalized and will be available in April.

What a joy it was to work with S. Brewer and an incredible team of scholars and editors.

Next stop will be THE COLLECTED PLAYS OF ROBERT GREENE for which I am General Editor...