Jonathan Bate

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

life and work

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

Bate has written books on literary subjects such as Shakespeare and Ovid (1993) and The Genius of Shakespeare (1997) and in 1995 took care of 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 . Most recently, he published a Shakespeare biography Soul of the Age: The Life Mind and World of William Shakespeare in 2009 and a brief overview of the history of literature ( English Literature: A Very Short Introduction ) in 2010 . The one-person play The Man From Stratford , written by him, was performed by the Ambassador Theater Group with actor Simon Callow .

For his biography of John Clare , he received the Hawthornden Prize in 2004 and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2005 . In 2006 he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire . In 2015 he was beaten to Knight Bachelor ("Sir").

Publications

  • Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination , 1986
  • Elia and The Last Essays of Elia / Charles Lamb , 1987
  • Shakespearean Constitutions: politics, theater, criticism 1730-1830 , 1989
  • Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition , 1991
  • The Romantics on Shakespeare , 1992
  • Shakespeare: An Illustrated Stage History , Associate 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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Year Honors List
personal data
SURNAME Bate, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British English scholar, philologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1958