Washington State University Offers Full Semester Course on Edward De Vere
First there was Concordia University’s Shakespeare Authorship Conference; now Washington State University Professor Dr. Michael Delahoyde, a Shakespeare Fellowship member and regular contributor to our discussion forum, has started a regular Honors Course (Honors 440) on the authorship question. “I am reasonably certain,” writes Delahoyde in his online course description, “this is the first time ever such a course has been offered anywhere at any time on earth: a semester of researching and studying the multi-disciplinary works of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604) and his life at Queen Elizabeth’s court.”
Like many other English instructors who have introducted students to the authorship question, Delahoyde reports an explosive intellectual energy is unleashed when students are invited to consider the authorship question with open minds: “several students stay after class every day wanting to know more about Oxford’s life and tackling their own research projects with detective zeal.” Congratulations, Professor Delahoyde!