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This edition: Who Was William Shakespeare?

Episode Details

Original tape date: March 9, 2015.

First aired: March 23, 2015.

Author Andrea Chapin became a Shakespearean expert doing research for her historical novel, "The Tutor," about an untold year in Shakespeare’s life where he has a steamy love affair with a young widow, who becomes the muse for Venus and Adonis. She tells Jim Zirin that Christopher Marlowe did not write the plays of Shakespeare, but that Shakespeare may very well have written the plays of Marlowe.

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Andrea Chapin Author, “The Tutor”

  • About this series

  • Conversations with Jim Zirin is a talk show designed to illuminate the news by taking the time required to understand and interpret national and world events. The series features high-profile guests from the worlds of politics, law, business, foreign relations, national security, counterterrorism, media, lifestyles, literature, the arts, and the military.

    The series is hosted by Jim Zirin, a leading litigator and contributor to major publications including Forbes, the Daily Beast, the Nation, The Times of London and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of two books, The Mother Court -- Tales of Cases That Mattered in America's Greatest Trial Court, and Supremely Partisan—How Raw Politics Tips the Scales in the United States Supreme Court. Jim served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York in the Criminal Division under the legendary Robert M. Morgenthau.

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