 At the beginning of World War I Oliphant wrote an able piece of propaganda, "Germany and Good Faith", which was published in Melbourne in 1914 and later in London.In the same year, in giving the annual lecture of the Melbourne Shakespeare Society, he made a plea for the fuller recognition of the other dramatists of the Elizabethan period.The lecture was published separately under the title, "The Place of Shakespeare in Elizabethan Drama".