Jonathan Bate

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Sir Jonathan Bate
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Bate in 2019
Born (1958-06-26) 26 June 1958 (age 66)
NationalityBritish
Occupations
Known for Shakespeare, Romanticism, Ecocriticism
Spouse Paula Byrne
Awards Hawthornden Prize, James Tait Black Prize
Academic background
Education Sevenoaks School
Alma mater St Catharine's College, Cambridge
Harvard University

Books

Editions

Articles

Out of the Twilight, New Statesman, 130, no. 4546, (16 July 2001), pp. 25–27.

‘Othello and the Other: Turning Turk: The Subtleties of Shakespeare's Treatment of Islam’, TLS: The Times Literary Supplement, 19 October 2001, pp. 14–15.

Hazlitt, William (1778-1830), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004),

‘Was Shakespeare an Essex Man?’, Proceedings of the British Academy, 162 (2009), pp. 1–28. The 2008 British Academy Shakespeare Lecture.

‘Shakespeare in the Twilight of Romanticism: Wagner, Swinburne, Pater’, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 146 (2010), pp. 11–25. The 2009 Shakespeares-Tag Lecture, Weimar.

‘Much throwing about of brains’, Brain: A Journal of Neurology, 132.9 (September 2009), pp. 2617–2620, https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awp205

‘Books do Furnish a Mind: the Art and Science of Bibliotherapy’, with Andrew Schuman, The Lancet, 20 Feb 2016, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00337-8

‘“The infirmity of his age”: Shakespeare’s 400th Anniversary’, The Lancet, 23 April 2016, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30269-0

The Anatomy of Melancholy Revisited’, The Lancet, 6 May 2017, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31152-2

‘The worst is not, so long as we can say “This is the worst”’, The Lancet, 14 April 2020, https://doi.org./10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30811-4

‘Cherchez la femme: Keats and Mrs Jones’, TLS: The Times Literary Supplement, 19 February 2021, https://www.the-tls.co.uk/issues/february-19-2021/

‘John Keats in the season of mists’, The Lancet, 22 February 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00449-9

References

  1. "Professor's expertise in Shakespeare leads to top faculty honor". ASU News. 22 February 2024.
  2. Ezard, John (17 June 2006). "The laureate's biographer". The Guardian.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Robson, Leo (4 June 2022). "Jonathan Bate: 'To me, Shakespeare is the great enabler'". New Statesman.
  4. "Jonathan Bate elected Provost of Worcester College". University of Oxford News. 26 August 2010.
  5. "Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre – Shortlisted for RIBA Stirling Prize 2018". Royal Institute of British Architects. 2018.
  6. "Professor Sir Jonathan Bate FBA FRSL". The British Academy. 2021.
  7. Treneman, Ann (6 August 2010). "The Man from Stratford at the Assembly Hall, Edinburgh". The Times.
  8. Gardner, Lyn (27 June 2011). "Being Shakespeare – review". The Guardian.
  9. "Being Shakespeare at the Harold Pinter Theatre". WestEndTheatre.com. 8 May 2014.
  10. Dickson, Andrew (29 February 2012). "Bard labour: Patrick Stewart and Simon Callow tackle Shakespeare the man". The Guardian.
  11. Bate, Jonathan; Dora Thornton (2012). Shakespeare: Staging the World. British Museum Press. ISBN   9780714128245.
  12. Gifford, Terry (1998). "Pastoral, Anti-Pastoral and Post-Pastoral as Reading Strategies". Critical Survey. 10 (3): 1–8. doi:10.3167/001115798783233468 (inactive 16 May 2025).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of May 2025 (link)
  13. Richardson, Brian (2018). Ecocritical Shakespeare. Liverpool University Press. p. 32.
  14. Hall, Peter (2003). Shakespeare Revealed. Simon & Schuster. p. xi.
  15. "Picador to reissue The Genius of Shakespeare". The Bookseller. 18 December 2015.
  16. Fleming, Rupert (16 August 2004). "Jonathan Bate wins James Tait Black Prize". The Daily Telegraph.
  17. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/oct/18/featuresreviews.guardianreview5
  18. Hattersley, Roy (11 October 2003). "John Clare: A Biography, By Jonathan Bate". The Independent.
  19. Billington, Michael (15 November 2008). "The seven ages of Shakespeare". The Guardian.
  20. "2020 Awards". Lakeland Book of the Year. 2020.
  21. Cooke, Rachel (5 May 2021). "How Keats lives on – and other new books reviewed". New Statesman.
  22. Cooke, Rachel (24 January 2021). "Bright Star, Green Light by Jonathan Bate review – the parallel lives of a pair of romantics". The Guardian.
  23. Bate, Jonathan (2 April 2014). "How the actions of the Ted Hughes estate will change my biography". The Guardian.
  24. Flood, Alison (19 October 2015). "Ted Hughes biography: publisher calls estate's attack 'defamatory'". The Guardian.
  25. "Biographers International Organization 2016 Award Winners". BIO. 15 May 2016.
  26. Mullan, John (9 October 2015). "Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life by Jonathan Bate – review". The Guardian.
  27. Gibbs, Jonathan (1 October 2015). "Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life, book review". The Independent.
  28. 1 2 Flood, Alison (19 October 2015). "Ted Hughes biography: publisher calls estate's attack 'defamatory'". The Guardian.
  29. Kidd, James (3 October 2015). "Sir Jonathan Bate on his controversial new biography of Ted Hughes: 'This was the book I was born to write'". The Independent.
  30. Barrell, John (1989). "Review: Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination". The Review of English Studies. 40 (159): 432–434.
  31. Lewis, Rhodri (5 July 2019). "Review: How the Classics Made Shakespeare". The Times Literary Supplement (6039): 6.
  32. Goodbody, Axel (2018). "The Rising Tide of Climate Change Fiction". Environmental Humanities. 10 (2): 501.
  33. Bevington, David (Spring 1996). "Review of Titus Andronicus, ed. Jonathan Bate". Shakespeare Quarterly. 47 (1): 95–99. doi:10.2307/2871393. JSTOR   2871393.
  34. Wells, Stanley (1997). "Review of Jonathan Bate's Titus Andronicus". Shakespeare Survey. 50: 244–246.
  35. 1 2 3 Rosenbaum, Ron (12 June 2008). "Are Those Shakespeare's "Balls"?". Slate. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
  36. "2007 Falstaff Awards". Shakespeareances. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  37. de Grazia, Margreta (7 December 2007). "Review: The RSC Shakespeare". TLS.
  38. Jackson, MacDonald P. (2014). "Review: Collaborative Plays by Shakespeare and Others". Shakespeare Quarterly. 65 (2): 225–227.
  39. "The RSC Complete Works Second Edition". Bloomsbury Academic. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  40. Wheater, Isabella (1999). "Review of The Romantics on Shakespeare, ed. Jonathan Bate". The Review of English Studies. 50 (197): 84–87. doi:10.1093/res/50.197.84.
  41. Thomas, Adrian (2005). "Review of John Clare: Selected Poems, ed. Jonathan Bate". The John Clare Society Journal. 24: 95–97.
  42. "English Romantic Poetry". Penguin Random House. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  43. Quirke, Antonia (12 February 2020). "Following Wordsworth's footsteps – Radio review". New Statesman.
  44. Orr, James (13 February 2020). "Radio 4's walk with Wordsworth filled my heart with pleasure". The Daily Telegraph.
  45. Ryzik, Melena (30 March 2023). "Shakespeare's First Folio at 400: A Wonder of the Literary World". The New York Times.
  46. "King Charles III Examines the First Folio of King Charles I (PBS clip)". PBS. 17 November 2023.
  47. Persall, Steve (17 November 2023). "An engrossing look at the book that made Shakespeare". Orlando Sentinel.
  48. Furness, Hannah (8 June 2019). "Sir Jonathan Bate: I turned down Oxford University over wife's treatment". The Telegraph.
  49. "Sir Jonathan Bate joins ASU as Professor of Environmental Humanities". Arizona State University. 2019.
  50. "United Kingdom list: CBE". The London Gazette. 17 June 2006.
  51. "New Year Honours 2015: CSV". UK Cabinet Office. 31 December 2014.
  52. "Announcing the 2025 Guggenheim Fellows". 15 April 2025.
  53. Wheater, Isabella (February 1999). "Reviewed Work: Shakespeare and Ovid by Jonathan Bate". The Review of English Studies. 50 (197): 84–87. doi:10.1093/res/50.197.84. JSTOR   517771.
  54. Berek, P. (2000). "Review of 'The Genius of Shakespeare' by Jonathan Bate". Shakespeare Quarterly. 51 (1): 112–114. doi:10.2307/2902334. JSTOR   2902334.
  55. Motion, Andrew (17 October 2003). "Review of John Clare by Jonathan Clare". The Guardian. (See John Clare.)
  56. Maxwell, Glyn (21 December 2015). "Review of Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life by Jonathan Bate". The New York Times.
  57. Cooke, Rachel (14 April 2020). "Review of Radical Wordsworth by Jonathan Bate". The Guardian.
Academic offices
Preceded by Provost of Worcester College, Oxford
2011–2019
Succeeded by
Kate Tunstall (interim)