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THE TRAGEDY OF ARTHUR
by Arthur Phillips

The Tragedy of Arthur’s well-deserved hype has focused on the metafictional moxie of its author, Arthur Phillips, particularly in the novel’s last 100 or so pages. In them, he offers up a putatively “lost” five-act, fully annotated play by Shakespeare called “The Tragedy of Arthur”—the authenticity of which is the central question in this extraordinarily inventive, extraordinarily good novel. Read more…