Davison , Peter , fl 1980-2004 , Professor of English

Peter Davison was editor of The Complete Works of George Orwell and Professor and Senior Research Fellow in English and Media, De Montfort University, Leicester. Davison was originally commissioned in 1981 to produce corrected versions of Orwell's nine separate books. He also edited the Facsimile of the Manuscript of Nineteen Eighty-Four and was commissioned in 1982 to produce a collected edition of Orwell's shorter writing which developed into the production of The Complete Works. He was President of the Bibliographical Society, 1992-1994, whose journal, The Library, he edited for 12 years. He was also a Shakespeare expert on whose plays he published a number of works.

Publications:

The Complete Works of George Orwell editor

Songs of the British Music Hall: A Critical Study

Popular Appeal in English Drama to 1850

Contemporary Drama and the Popular Dramatic Tradition

Hamlet: Text and Performance

Henry V: Masterguide

Othello: The Critical Debate

George Orwell: A Literary Life