Raby
Proper noun
Meaning
A surname.
A hamlet in Holme East Waver parish, Allerdale borough, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY1851).
A locality around Raby Castle in Raby with Keverstone parish, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ1222).
A hamlet in the south of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ3179).
A suburb of Sydney, in the City of Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia.
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Examples
Ellmann (1988:404) Peter Raby said these essentially English plays were well-pitched, "Wilde, with one eye on the dramatic genius of Ibsen, and the other on the commercial competition in London's West End, targeted his audience with adroit precision".
Jackson, R. "The Importance of Being Earnest" in Raby, P. (Ed.) (1997:161) During rehearsal Alexander requested that Wilde shorten the play from four acts to three, which the author did.
Jackson, R. "The Importance of Being Earnest" in Raby, P. (Ed.) (1997:165) Wilde's professional success was mirrored by an escalation in his feud with Queensberry.
Raby (1988:120) Many names and ideas in the play were borrowed from people or places the author had known; Lady Queensberry, Lord Alfred Douglas 's mother, for example, lived at Bracknell.
Raby (1997:109) By the end fact and fiction have melded together.
Raby (1997:111) Wilde claimed the plot was "an idea that is as old as the history of literature but to which I have given a new form".