 In 1925 Oliphant went to America, was appointed a lecturer at Stanford University, California, and subsequently lectured on his own special department at other leading universities in the United States.His most important work, "The Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, An Attempt to determine their respective shares and the shares of others", was published by the Yale University Press in 1927.Two years later he brought out in New York "Shakespeare and his Fellow Dramatists