Jonathan Bate

Jonathan Bate (born June 26, 1958) is a British Shakespeare scholar and literary biographer. He has also written on topics connected with Romanticism.

He was educated at Sevenoaks School and the University of Cambridge.

His publications include Shakespeare and Ovid (1993), the Arden edition of Titus Andronicus (1995), The Genius of Shakespeare (1997), two influential works of ecocriticism, Romantic Ecology (1991) and The Song of the Earth (2000) and a novel about William Hazlitt, The Cure for Love. His biography of John Clare (2003) won the Hawthornden prize for Literature. His most recent book is a new edition of Clare's Selected Poetry (Faber and Faber, 2004), and All the Queen's Men: Culture and Ideas in Shakespeare's England.

He teaches at Warwick University.

Warwick University

Works

• Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination 1986
• Romantic Ecology(1991)
• Shakespeare and Ovid (1993),
• Arden edition of Titus Andronicus (1995),
• Shakespeare An Illustrated Stage History (1996) with Russell Jackson
• The Genius of Shakespeare (1997)
• The Cure for Love (1998) novel about William Hazlitt
• The Song of the Earth (2000)
• John Clare (2003) biography, Hawthornden Prize
• Selected Poetry of John Clare (2004)

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