Darren Freebury-Jones: Reading Robert Greene: Recovering Shakespeare’s Rival (Routledge Studies in Shakespeare). London and New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Over the past few decades increasing scholarly attention has been paid to early modern playwrights other than Shakespeare, and the digital turn in humanities has resulted in a vigorously renewed interest in Attribution Studies. Reading Robert Greene: Recovering Shakespeare’s Rival by Darren Freebury-Jones is therefore a very timely book, and it makes a significant intervention in the field. It convincingly enlarges the dramatic canon of Elizabethan playwright Robert Greene and refreshingly presents him as an innovative dramatist fully engaged with the theatrical life of his time.