Reading by the Lamp of Biography
Andrew Werth, a recent graduate of Concordia University (in Portland, Oregon, home of the Edward de Vere Studies Conference), writes about his perspectives on studying literature in conjunction with an author’s biography, and how such study stands in stark contrast to the conventional views of and conventional teaching of Shakespeare. (This essay was published in Volume II (1999) of the Society’s annual journal, The Oxfordian, and is also available on the Oxfordian website.)