Editor’s Introduction to “Reviews of Films Anonymous and Last Will. and Testament” by Richard M. Waugaman

摘要

Anonymous and Last Will. And Testament and Richard Waugaman confront the authorship controversy as to whether the Stratfordian Man or Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, were the authors of the work of Shakespeare. Waugaman believes that there was an idealizing transference to the Bard leading to a disavowal and lack of acknowledgment of alternate views of authorship that resulted in attacks on Oxfordians. Richard Waugaman has written over 60 publications on this controversy which are collected in two Kindle editions Newly Discovered Works by “William Shake-speare”: a.k.a. Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford and It’s Time to Re-Vere the Works of “Shake-Speare”: A Psychoanalyst Reads the Works of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford. Waugaman is the second psychoanalyst to follow Freud’s suggestion that we re-examine Shakespeare’s works based on the realization that they were probably written by de Vere. According toWaugaman Freud venerated the works of Shakespeare and learned much about the role that unconscious conflicts contribute to emotional suffering.