Grace Tiffany has been a professor of Shakespeare at Western Michigan University since 1995, and has spoken as an invited lecturer at a number of colleges and universities, including Wheaton College in Chicago and the University of Salamanca in Spain. Before moving to Michigan she taught for five years at the University of New Orleans and for one year at Fordham University in New York City. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Notre Dame. She and her family live in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
In both her fiction and her scholarly work, Tiffany celebrates Shakespeare, embracing the themes of gender confusion, spiritual growth through roleplay, tragic choices, redemption, and ultimate forgiveness that are central to his work. In imagining the lives of the playwright and his family, as well as the expanded lives of his characters, she explores what Shakespeare has said to us, but does so in a contemporary idiom–inferior, she admits, to Shakespeare’s poetry, but fun to read anyway.
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