Jonathan Bate

Jonathan Bate CBE FBA FRSL ( born June 26, 1958) is a British Anglist, philologist, and university professor.

Life and work

After attending Sevenoaks School, Bate studied at the University of Cambridge and was there after graduation Fellow at Trinity Hall. In 1991 he accepted an appointment to the King Alfred Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool and taught there until 2003. From 2003 to 2011 he was professor of the literature of Shakespeare and the Renaissance at the University of Warwick. Since 2011 he has been provost at Worcester College. In addition to teaching at universities in the USA, he is a director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, in 1999, a Fellow of the British Academy and worked as literary critic for the BBC and various newspapers such as The Guardian and The Sunday Telegraph.

Bate has written books on literary topics such as Shakespeare and Ovid ( 1993) and The Genius of Shakespeare ( 1997) and 1995 concerned the new edition of Titus Andronicus in the Arden series. In 1998, he wrote a novel ( The Cure for Love ), based on the life of the writer and essayist William Hazlitt. Last appeared in 2009 from him a Shakespeare biography Soul of the Age: The Life of Mind and World of William Shakespeare and 2010, a short literary-historical overview ( English Literature: A Very Short Introduction ). The written by him one-person play, The Man From Stratford was listed by the Ambassador Theatre Group with the actor Simon Callow.

For his biography of John Clare 2004 he received the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial 2005 Prize. In 2006 he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Publications

  • Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination, 1986
  • Elia and The Last Essays of Elia / Charles Lamb, 1987
  • Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition, 1991
  • The Romantics on Shakespeare, 1992
  • Shakespeare: An Illustrated Stage History, co-editor Russell Jackson, 1995
  • The Song of the Earth, 2000
  • The Oxford English Literary History, 2002
  • "I am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare, 2003
  • Shakespeare 's Face, 2003
  • John Clare: Selected Poems, 2004
  • Andrew Marvell: The Complete Poems, 2005
  • Shakespeare in the Elizabethan World, 2008
  • The Public Value of the Humanities, 2010
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