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

This is a talk with Tanya Pollard of Brooklyn College, City University of New York about Ben Jonson and about her other work on women in Shakespeare and early modern drama.

00:00:00 - Intro

00:01:34 - Ben Jonson’s ‘The Alchemist’.

00:15:12 - Greek tragic women, drama, research methods

00:40:15 - Work with theaters in New York City

00:52:27 - What brought Tanya to NYC, CUNY

00:57:27 - Tanya’s aerial work, the silks

01:08:17 - Closing remarks

Video broadcast here or at https://youtu.be/uVmVZxW2Pu8
Thomas Dabbs speaks with Agnès Lafont of Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 and Lindsay Reid of the University of Galway about their research and recent collaborations in early modern editing and performance. Lots of Ovid, for Ovid lovers:

[LINKS]
- The Edward’s Boys, 'The Maydes Metamorphosis':Trailer, 2024 © Esme Cornish
King Edward VI School (KES), Stratford-upon-Avon
https://nakala.fr/10.34847/nkl.935bd7zg
- Edward's Boys at https://www.edwardsboys.org.uk
- Artists in residency, IRCL: https://ircl.cnrs.fr/en/recherche/residences-dartistes-en-laboratoire-scientifique/
- "The Maid's Metamorphosis or The Metamorphoses of the Maid?": https://researchrepository.universityofgalway.ie/entities/publication/e20d661b-fae7-44f3-b062-38d0b2a2094c

[SEGMENTS]
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:35 - ‘The Maydes Metamorphosis’ and Ovid
00:21:27 - Summer School in Sardinia: ‘The Tempest’
00:28:53 - Ovid in the air, cross-cultural influences
00:47:04 - Remediating the Early Book: Past and Futures
00:50:34 - Polyglot Encounters in Early Modern Britain
00:53:34 - Scholar adventurers, outreach, beautiful places