Andrew Crider – Edward de Vere and the Psychology of Creativity

Oxfordians have amassed a great deal of circumstantial evidence in support of Edward de Vere as the author of the Shakespeare canon. This presentation deals with an additional source of such evidence that has not been fully exploited by Oxfordians, namely, the psychology of creativity. The presentation will focus on three topics in this expanding field of inquiry: convergent vs. divergent thinking; the ten-year rule of dedicated preparation; and personality traits of creative individuals. I will also point out the ways in which de Vere’s life and character are consistent with our contemporary understanding of creative eminence and therefore provide presumptive evidence for his authorship of the Shakespeare canon.

This talk was presented at the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Conference in Chicago on October 12, 2017.

Andrew Crider, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of psychology at Williams College. He holds a B.A. in history from Colgate University, an M.S. in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin, and a Ph.D. in personality/clinical psychology from Harvard University. A licensed psychologist, he consulted for several years in the department of psychiatry at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, Mass., where he also established a program in clinical biofeedback for stress related disorders. He has published extensively in leading psychology journals in the areas of psychophysiology and psychopathology and is coauthor of Psychology, a widely adopted introductory textbook. More recently he has contributed a psychological study of Will Shakspere to Brief Chronicles (2011) and a piece to the Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter (2015) arguing that Ben Jonson’s De Shakespeare Nostrati was most likely a depiction of Edward de Vere.

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