Richard M. Waugaman, a Philosophy major, graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in 1970. In 1973, he received a M.D. from Duke University School of Medicine. From 1973-76, his psychiatric residency was conducted at Sheppard-Pratt Hospital in Towson, MD. In 1984, he graduated from the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, and since 2001, has been a Training & Supervising Analyst Emeritus there.
In 1973, Waugaman began his publishing career by writing an article on Nietzsche's influence on Freud. He has published in the psychiatry and psychoanalysis fields on a variety of topics, including cognitive psychology, neuroscience, psychoanalytic education, clinical psychoanalysis, professional ethics, religion, dissociative disorders, transferences to fellow patients, time, the analytic couch, the meaning of names, dreams, and countertransference.
Since 2002, Waugaman has shifted most of his research interests to English literature and the Shakespeare authorship question. Based on Sigmund Freud's, the founder of psychoanalysis, endorsement of the theory that Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford (1550-1604) was the true author of Shakespeare's canon, Waugaman has continued such endorsement by publishing in Oxfordian journals the results of his attribution studies that several anonymous works were written by de Vere a/k/a Shakespeare. Waugaman is also interested in Biblical allusions in the works of Shakespeare and, in 2009, published the results of his correlation between the Sternhold and Hopkins' Metrical Psalms and the Shakespearean canon in the Oxford University Press' journal, Notes and Queries.
As of 2014, Waugaman was named one of Georgetown University's faculty experts on Shakespeare for media contacts. Since then, he has earned the distinction of having written two-thirds of its faculty's most recent 50 publications on Shakespeare.
Selected works
- "A Wanderlust Poem, Newly Attributed to Edward de Vere [William Shakespeare]." Shakespeare Matters 7.1 (2007): 21-23.
- "A Snail Poem, Newly Attributed to Edward de Vere [William Shakespeare]." Shakespeare Matters 7.2 (2008): 6-11.
- "The Sternhold and Hopkins Whole Book of Psalms Is a Major Source for the Works of Shakespeare." Notes & Queries 56 (2009): 595-604.
- With Roger Stritmatter, "Who was âWilliam Shakespeareâ? We Propose He was Edward de Vere." The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review 32 (2009): 105-115.
- "The Psychology of Shakespearean Biography." Brief Chronicles: The Interdisciplinary Journal of the Shakespeare Fellowship 1 (2009): 34-48.
- "A Psychoanalytic Study of Edward de Vereâs [Shakespeareâs] The Tempest." Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis 37 (2009): 627-643.
- "The Arte of Overturning Tradition: Did E.K.â"a.k.a. E.O.â"Write The Arte of English Poesie?." Brief Chronicles: The Interdisciplinary Journal of the Shakespeare Fellowship 2 (2010): 220-226.
- "The Arte of English Poesie: The Case for Edward de Vereâs [Shakespeareâs] Authorship." Brief Chronicles: The Interdisciplinary Journal of the Shakespeare Fellowship 2 (2010): 121-141.
- "The Discovery of a Major New Literary Source for Shakespeareâs Works in the de Vere Geneva Bible." Brief Chronicles: The Interdisciplinary Journal of the Shakespeare Fellowship 2 (2010): 109-120.
- "The Bisexuality of Shakespeareâs Sonnets and Implications for De Vereâs Authorship." The Psychoanalytic Review 97 (2010): 857-879.
- "Samuel Clemens and Mark Twain: Pseudonym as Act of Reparation." The Psychoanalytic Review 97 (2010): 835-856.
- "Echoes of the Whole Book of Psalms in Shakespeareâs 1 Henry VI, Richard II, and Edward III." Notes & Queries 57.3 (2010): 359-364.
- "Psychoanalyse und die Verfasserschaftsfrage." in John Thomas Looney und Sigmund Freud. Ed. U. Laugwitz, H. Wember, R. Detobel. : Neue Shake-speare Gesellschaft, 2010: 124-131
- "âThe Sternhold and Hopkins Whole Book of Psalms Offers Crucial Evidence of de Vereâs Authorship of the Works of Shakespeare.â." Brief Chronicles: The Interdisciplinary Journal of the Shakespeare Fellowship 3 (2011): 213-234.
- "âTitus Andronicus, the Psalms, and Edward de Vereâs [Shakespeareâs] Bibleâ." The Oxfordian 13 (2011): 34-49.
- "âShakespeareâs Sonnet 80, Marlowe, and Hero and Leanderâ." Shakespeare Matters 10.2 (2011): 27-30.
- With Roger Stritmatter, "The Significance of Anonymous Authorship in Elizabethan England: Reply to Anders Zacchrison." Scandinavian Review of Psychoanalysis 34 (2011): 120-122.
- "Did Sir Walter Ralegh Have Access to an Early Draft of Venus and Adonis?." Shakespeare Matters 11 (2012): 5, 26.
- "Disparkâd in Shakespeare and Disparkinge in a 1572 Letter of Edward de Vere." The Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter 48.3 (2012): 8-9.
- "âPsalms Help Confirm de Vere Was Shakespeare: Psalm 77 Echoed in Sonnet 28 and in Hamletâ ." The Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter (2012): 19-24.
- "âThe Psychopathology of [Shakespearean] Stratfordianismâ." The Oxfordian 14 (2012): 31-46.
- "Biblical Sources for Shakespeareâs Sonnets 24 and 33, and for Henry VIII: Implications for de Vereâs Authorship." Brief Chronicles 4 (2012): 73-87.
- "âA New 1569 Poem by Arthur Golding,â Re-attributed to Edward de Vere (Shakespeare)." The Shakespeare-Oxford Newsletter 49.1 (2013): 9-10.
- "Dating Macbeth: A 1603 Source for âEquivocationâ as an Alleged Gunpowder Plot Allusion in Macbeth." The Shakespeare-Oxford Newsletter 49.2 (2013): 9-10.
- "A Source for âRemembrance of Things Pastâ in Sonnet 30." Shakespeare Matters 12.1 (2013): 1, 15-16.
- "New Discoveries about the Authorship of Shakespeareâs Works." The Oxfordian 15 (2013): 74-92.
- "The Theme of Betrayal in the Works of âWilliam Shakespeareâ." in Betrayal: Developmental, Clinical, and Literary Realms. Ed. Salman Akhtar. London: Karnac Books, 2013: 83-97
- "A 1578 Poem about Edward de Vere [Shakespeare]." Shakespeare-Oxford Society Newsletter (2014).
- "Betrayal in the Life of Edward de Vere, in the Plays of Shakespeare, and in Sonnet 121." Brief Chronicles: The Interdisciplinary Journal of the Shakespeare Fellowship (2014).
- "The 1574 Mirror for Magistrates is a Possible Source for âFeathâred Kingâ in Shakespeareâs The Phoenix and the Turtle." Cahiers Ãlisabéthains 85.1 (2014): 67-72.
- "An Oxfreudianâs Reflections on the Psychology of Orthodoxy: The Power of Narrative." in Building the Case for Edward de Vere As Shakespeare. Ed. Paul H. Altrocchi. : iUniverse, 2014.
- Newly Discovered Works by "William Shake-Speare": a.k.a. Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford [Kindle edition], November 8, 2014. http://www.amazon.com/Newly-Discovered-Works-William-Shake-Speare-ebook/dp/B00PEBGSLK/
- It's Time to Re-Vere the Works of "Shake-Speare": A Psychoanalyst Reads the Works of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford [Kindle edition], November 27, 2014. http://www.amazon.com/Time-Re-Vere-Works-Shake-Speare-Psychoanalyst-ebook/dp/B00Q1P3VP4
- "Greed in the Life of William Shakspereâ"And Generosity in the Life of Edward de Vere, a.k.a. âShakespeareâ." in Greed: Psychoanalytic Perspectives. Ed. Salman Akhtar. : Karnac Books, 2015.
References
External links
- www.oxfreudian.com
- http://shake-speares-bible.com/2014/08/25/why-censorship-doesnt-work/ [Includes link to Professor Waugamanâs article, as refused publication by editor Dr. Gary Taylor on the grounds of being âprofoundly unscholarlyâ]
- Reisz, Matthew. "Shakespeare scholar disputes decision-reversal by journal" http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/shakespeare-scholar-disputes-decision-reversal-by-journal/2015679.article, Times Higher Education. 11 Sep 2014. [Memoria di Shakespeareâs new editors backtrack on acceptance of Oxfordian academicâs paper]
- Paton, Graeme. "Shakespearean academics clash over 'conspiracy theories'" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/11090085/Shakespearean-academics-clash-over-conspiracy-theories.html, The Telegraph. 11 Sep 2014. [Academics trade blows over a paper questioning whether Shakespeare penned his own plays, with a rival professor comparing the conclusions to those of a "Holocaust denier"]