Dr. Robert H. Ray

Professor

Renaissance Literature

17th Century Literature

Carroll Science, room 211

(254) 710-6883

Robert_Ray@baylor.edu

Education

Ph.D. University of Texas

Robert H. Ray, Professor of English, received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas in 1967. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He has taught a Shakespeare course in England with the Baylor-in-London program. His major scholarly and teaching interests are seventeenth-century English literature, especially the Metaphysical Poets, and sixteenth-century English literature, especially Shakespeare. He is a member of the graduate faculty.

* The Herbert Allusion Book: Allusions to George Herbert in the Seventeenth Century. Texts and Studies series. U of North Carolina P and Studies in Philology. Studies in Philology 83:4. 1986.

* Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's "King Lear." Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. Modern Language Association. 1986

* A John Donne Companion. Garland Publishing. 1990.

* A George Herbert Companion. Garland Publishing. 1995

* An Andrew Marvell Companion. Garland Publishing, 1998.

* "Twelfth Night" in Volume 5 of Facts on File Companion to Shakespeare, edited by William Baker and Kenneth Womack, 2012, pp. 1985-2029.

* "The Centrality of ‘Head' in Jonson's ‘To William Camden'," ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, 24 (2011), 138-39.

* "Recent Studies in George Herbert (1987-2007)," English Literary Renaissance, Autumn, 2010, 458-80.

* "Time and Tempest in The Duchess of Malfi: Webster's Use of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night," Cahiers Elisabethains: A Biannual Journal of English Renaissance Studies, Spring, 2010, 51-52.

* "Uses of the Royal Plural in King Lear," Cahiers Elisabethains: A Biannual Journal of English Renaissance Studies, Spring, 2005, 43-44.

* "The Admiration of Sir Philip Sidney by Lovelace and Carew: New Seventeenth-Century Allusions," ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, 18 (2005), 18-21.

* "Jonson's ‘His Excuse for Loving'," The Explicator, 63 (2004), 12-13.

* "A World of Questions: An Approach Indebted to Maynard Mack." In Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's "Hamlet", ed. Bernice W. Kliman, 97–101. New York: Modern Language Association, 2001.

* "Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 18'," The Explicator, 53 (1994), 10-11.

* "Herbert's 'Prayer I'," The Explicator, 51 (1993), 215–16.

* "Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' and Sandys's Translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses," The Review of English Studies, 44 (1993), 386–88.

* "Donne's 'To His Mistress Going to Bed,' lines 33–35," The Explicator, 50 (1992), 203–204.

* "Ben Jonson and the Metaphysical Poets: Continuity in a Survey Course." In Approaches to Teaching the Metaphysical Poets, ed. Sidney Gottlieb, 89-95. New York: Modern Language Association, 1990.

* "Recent Studies in Herbert (1974-1986)," English Literary Renaissance, 18:3 (1988), 460-75.

* "Herbert's Words in Donne's Mouth: Walton's Account of Donne's Death," Modern Philology, 85:2 (1987), 186-87.

* "Herbert's Seventeenth-Century Reputation: A Summary and New Considerations," George Herbert Journal, 9:2 (1986), 1-15.

* "Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, Sonnet 5," The Explicator, 41:3 (1983), 7-9.

* "Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 16,'" The Explicator, 38:1 (1979), 24-25.

* "Spatial and Aural Patterns in 'The Windows,'" George Herbert Journal, 1:2 (1978), 38-43.

* "'By God's Liggens' in 2 Henry IV: An Explanation," English Language Notes, 15:4 (1978), 268-71.

* "The 'Ribaudred Nagge' of Antony and Cleopatra, III.x.10: A Suggested Emendation," English Language Notes, 14:1 (1976), 21-25.