Alexandra Mason

Alexandra Mason, Shakespeare scholar, poet, and novelist, has published widely on language and structure in Renaissance and feminist literature. Thousands of college students remember her as a challenging and inspiring professor who led them through the joys and rigors of reading and writing literature. Her classic study of metaphor, “Econolingua,” is released in an expanded edition as “Shakespeare’s Money Talks.” Her two collections of poetry, “Lost and Found” and “Poems Along the Way,” contain prize-winning poems, and her novel “The Lighthouse Ghost of Yaquina Bay” is perennially well-received. Her newest novel is “Shakespeare’s Pipe,” a speculative novel on our persistent desire to know more about Shakespeare the man, here with unforeseen results. Dr. Mason’s philosophical self-help volume, “A Handbook for Love,” draws on her broad learning and experience to offer Montaigne-like speculations on the power of loving to discover happiness in life. For years she traveled through the Pacific Northwest giving a Chautauqua presentation called “My Shakespeare,” finding lovers of the Bard and his legacy in places far-flung and near.