What's Old Is New

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Author Arthur Phillips recently published his 5th book, The Tragedy of Arthur, which purports the existence of a newly discovered Shakespeare play. He was kind enough to join us to chat about both his book and the Shakespeare connection. Already read the book? Come back tomorrow for our exclusive tumblr-only outtakes of the parts of conversation that we deemed too full of spoilers for the podcast.

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0:20 Arthur’s other books (and his Jeopardy career!)

2:20 The Tragedy of Arthur - so meta

3:06 When The Tragedy of Arthur insinuated itself into Arthur’s brain

4:45 The Anti-Stratfordians, tell us what you really think, Arthur

12:45 Arthur-as-character’s dislike of Shakespeare

15:40 Arthur Phillips validates our existence as a classics podcast that doesn’t always like classics and we get off topic talking about Jane Eyre

21:00 Why has Shakespeare endured? Who is right?

26:35 The wrap-up

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