@freeburian
FRHistS. Author. Public speaker. Shakespeare scholar. General Ed: Collected Plays of Robert Greene. Associate Ed: Collected Works of Thomas Kyd. Welsh. https://darrenfj.wordpress.com/2017/11/24/darren-freebury-jones-publications/
📚 Boost Your Students’ Exam Confidence with Engaging Shakespeare Sessions!
I have a limited number of slots available for interactive outreach and online Shakespeare sessions for KS3–KS5.
📩 For details or to book a session, email: darren_f.j@hotmail.co.uk
Next week is a kingly one 👑 I am giving an A-Level talk on King Lear and another talk for u3a on Shakespeare’s approaches to dramatizing history.
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A delight to give our 'Shakespeare by Numbers' talk this afternoon in London with Rob Eastaway.
Feel I've topped Shakespeare's literary commute today travelling from Cardiff to Stratford-upon-Avon to Oxford and now in London. Lovely to give talks on Dr Faustus in Stratford and Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers at Balliol College. Looking forward to two London talks tomorrow.
If you are in or near Oxford tomorrow evening, tickets are available for my talk on SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS at Balliol College, Massey Room, discussing early modern education, the theatre scene in London, and the influence of Marlowe.
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I am in Oxford on Monday evening giving a talk about SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS, looking at Elizabethan education; Shakespeare’s role as an actor-playwright; and intersections between his works and those of Christopher Marlowe.
Tickets here:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/oxford-shake....
If you are in or near Oxford tomorrow evening, tickets are available for my talk on SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS at Balliol College, Massey Room, discussing early modern education, the theatre scene in London, and the influence of Marlowe.
www.ticketsource.co.uk/oxford-shake...
Excited to read the great Joseph Rudman's nee book, 'Genre in Non-Traditional Authorship Attribution Studies', and very flattered by the kind words he has to say about my SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS
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I am in Oxford on Monday evening giving a talk about SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS, looking at Elizabethan education; Shakespeare’s role as an actor-playwright; and intersections between his works and those of Christopher Marlowe.
Tickets here:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/oxford-shake....
This follows the first article, by @freeburian.bsky.social, which received online publication late last year: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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...
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.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/twlf-...
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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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.
www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/f...
Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers Talk with Guest Speaker Dr Darren Freebury-Jones at Balliol College, Massey Room event tickets from TicketSource share.google/mBTs0EXXV1Ds...
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
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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.
