Peter Raby
Dr
Peter
Raby
Role:
Emeritus Fellow
Department:
Education, English
Contact number:
(+44)1223 813568
Contact email address:
phr21@cam.ac.uk
Year Joined Homerton:
1973
Research Interests:
Drama and theatre, especially in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Oscar Wilde. Harold Pinter. History of ideas, especially Victorian scientific travellers, and the natural world.
Qualifications:
- M.A. (Cantab)
- Ph.D. (London)
Publications:
- Fair Ophelia: A life of Harriet Smithson Berlioz (C.U.P.) 1982
- Oscar Wilde (C.U.P.) 1988
- Samuel Butler (The Hogarth Press) 1991
- Editor Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and other plays (Oxford World’s Classics) 1995
- Bright Paradise: Victorian Scientific Travellers (Chatto and Windus/Princeton U. Press) 1996
- Editor, Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde (C.U.P.) 1997
- Alfred Russel Wallace (Chatto & Windus/Princeton U. P.) 2001
- Editor, Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter (C.U.P.) 2001, revised edition 2009
- Co-editor, Wilde in Context (C.U.P.) 2013
