Prof. Jonathan Bate
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Jonathan Bate, BA, MA, PhD (Cambridge), CBE, FBA, FRSL - Professor of Shakespeare & Renaissance Literature email: j.bate@warwick.ac.uk Room H513, Humanities Building 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). He is 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, Hamlet, the two parts of Henry IV, King Lear, Love's Labour's Lost, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado about Nothing, Othello, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Sonnets and other Poems, The Tempest and The Winter's Tale are now in print, with As You Like It, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night to come in April 2010. His most recent book is an acclaimed intellectual and contextual biography of Shakespeare, called Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare (Viking Penguin UK, 2008; Random House USA, 2009; US title is Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare). An abbreviated version of the chapter on Richard II and the Essex rebellion was delivered as the 2008 British Academy Shakespeare Lecture, and can be downloaded as a pdf by following this link 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, he is on the Council of the AHRC, broadcasts regularly for the BBC (most recently the Radio 4 documentary series The Poetry of History), writes for the Guardian, TLS and Sunday Telegraph, has held visiting posts at Harvard, Yale and UCLA, and was awarded a CBE in the Queen's 80th Birthday Honours for his services to higher education. CURRENT RESEARCH AND TEACHING Jonathan co-teaches the MA Module Life Writing since 1900: History and Practice, with Jeremy Treglown and Paula Byrne. He also lectures, but does not currently give seminars, on undergraduate courses in Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and Romantic and Victorian poetry. He is on research leave from January 2010, but will continue to supervise his PhD students, and always welcomes inquiries from potential research students. 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'. English Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press) 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. He recently served on an AHRC group investigating the public impact of the humanities and is editing a collection of essays arising from it, provisionally entitled The Public Value of the Humanities. A working draft of his own essay is here. |
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