Professor Jonathan Bate
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LATEST NEWS: THE 'MAN FROM STRATFORD' TOUR HAS NOW BEEN EXTENDED: AFTER EDINBURGH IT WILL PLAY IN LONDON (RIVERSIDE STUDIOS 2-12 SEPT), CARDIFF (15-18 SEPT) AND GLASGOW (21-25 SEPT), WITH FURTHER DATES TO FOLLOW. "I suspect that this is a production that will be talked about for years to come and that anyone reviewing the great theatrical experiences of the early 21st century will place it high up on their list of personal favourites" (Bath Chronicle)
The American paperback edition of Soul of the Age will be published by Random House (New York) on 12 October 2010. The Public Value of the Humanities, a collection of essays edited by Jonathan Bate, will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in November 2010. Jonathan has written the introduction for Julie Taymor's The Tempest: A Screenplay (Abrams, New York), to be published in December to coincide with the release of her movie (which looks gorgeous!) starring Helen Mirren, Ben Whishaw and Russell Brand. Biography BA, MA, PhD (Cambridge), CBE, FBA, FRSL; Jonathan Bate is well known as a biographer, critic, broadcaster and Shakespeare scholar. He has wide-ranging research interests in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, Romanticism, biography and life-writing, ecocriticism, contemporary poetry and theatre history. He is a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature, as well as an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Before coming to Warwick in 2003, he was a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and then King Alfred Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool (1990-2003). He is on the Board of the RSC and the Council of the AHRC, broadcasts regularly for the BBC, writes for the Guardian, Times, TLS and Sunday Telegraph, and has held visiting posts at Harvard, Yale and UCLA. In 2006 he was awarded a CBE in the Queen's 80th Birthday Honours for his services to higher education. Research interests Jonathan is currently working on the following projects: Ted Hughes: The Inner Life (Faber and Faber UK, Farrar Straus Giroux USA). This is a long term project. It is not an "authorized biography" (Ted Hughes did not want one), but it is being written with the full co-operation of the Ted Hughes Estate. Collaborative Plays by Shakespeare and Others: an AHRC-funded edition of what used to be called 'The Shakespeare Apocrypha'. Shakespeare and the Theatre of the World: Jonathan is serving as Consultant Curator for this exhibition in the Round Reading Room that will be the British Museum's contribution to the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Selected publications His publications include Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination (Oxford UP, 1986), Shakespearean Constitutions (Oxford UP, 1989), Shakespeare and Ovid (Oxford UP, 1993), the Arden Shakespeare edition of Titus Andronicus (1995), The Genius of Shakespeare (Picador/OUP USA, 1997/8; 10th anniversary edition with new Afterword, 2008), two influential works of ecocriticism, Romantic Ecology (Routledge, 1991) and The Song of the Earth (Picador/Harvard UP, 2000), and a novel about William Hazlitt, The Cure for Love (Picador, 1998). His biography of John Clare (Picador/Farrar Straus Giroux, 2003) won Britain's two oldest literary awards, the Hawthornden Prize for Literature and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, as well as the NAMI (New York) Book Award; it was shortlisted for four other awards, including the Samuel Johnson Prize. He has also edited Clare's Selected Poems (Faber and Faber, 2004) and written a new introduction for the Penguin Classics edition of Andrew Marvell's Complete Poetry (2005). Since 2003 he has been on the Board of the Royal Shakespeare Company, for whom he edited, jointly with Eric Rasmussen, The RSC Shakespeare: Complete Works (Macmillan UK, Random House Modern Library USA, 2007, paperback 2008), which won the Falstaff Award for best Shakespeare book of 2007 and a British Book Design Award. Texts of individual plays, with longer introductions, stage histories and director interviews, are being published in batches: Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, Hamlet, the two parts of Henry IV, Henry V, King Lear, Love's Labour's Lost, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado about Nothing, Othello, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Sonnets and other Poems, The Tempest, Twelfth Night and The Winter's Tale are now in print, with Measure for Measure, Richard II, The Taming of the Shrew, Troilus and Cressida to come in September 2010. His most recent book is Soul of the Age.
Teaching and supervision Jonathan has a Leverhulme Fellowship for the academic year 2010-11, to work on Ted Hughes, but he will continue to co-teach the MA Module Life Writing since 1900: History and Practice, with Jeremy Treglown and Paula Byrne, and to contribute lectures to undergraduate courses on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and Romantic and Victorian poetry. |
Author photograph by Eamonn McCabe Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature H513; Professor Bate is on research leave from January 2010; email
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