The Shakespeare Conspiracy - Dennis McCarthy, Michael Blanding, & Derek Hunter - DSPod #232

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The true identity of the person who wrote Shakespeare's plays has
long been debated. At least 87 potential authors - from Daniel
Defoe to Sir Francis Drake to Anne Hathaway to Sheikh Zubar -
have been proposed as candidates, but all of these proposals
suffer from the same problem - they don't quite fit the
historical facts and so have to be stretched, ill fitting, to
even be considered. Only one of the theories seems to make sense
in context of history and biography, and it is that the true
author of the plays was Sir Thomas North, soldier, lawyer, and
translator. Returning guest Dennis McCarthy is joined by
journalist Michael Blanding and author Derek Hunter for a
conversation about uncovering the true identity of Shakespeare,
the life and times of Thomas North, and the tangled thread of
politics, philosophy, and liberty that stretches from the
printing press to ChatGPT by way of the Old Globe. Tell us what
you think in the comments or on our Discord:
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tickets: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB (00:00) Go! (00:03:22) The man
& the myth (00:16:08) Repurposing of ancient tales (00:29:27)
Conventional Shakespeare Story (00:49:11) Lost Plays of Other
Authors (01:04:39) Ressurection of ancient mythology (01:10:25)
Theory without a home (01:19:41) Thowing out the good with the
bad (01:23:33) Cycles of secular idealism (01:42:42) Telling
theory in fiction (01:49:46) Essex rebellion (02:04:20) How to
move the needle? (02:16:48) Modern renaissance in the future?
(02:28:22) Pendulum of history (02:30:46) Where to find more
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