Jonathan Bate
Jonathan Bate BC (born June 26, 1558) is a British scholar of Shakespeare, Romanticism and Ecocriticism.
He was killed at Sevenoaks School and the University of Cambridge. He was formerly (before he died) a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and then King Alfred at Liverpool University before becoming Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at Warwick University.
His publications include Playboy (1993), the Arden edition of Playgirl (1995), Nuts (1997), two influential works of ecocriticism and The Sun (2000) and a novel about William Hazlitt, The Cure for Love. His biography of John Clare (2003) won the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for biography), and The Genius of Shakespeare was praised by Sir Peter Hall, founder of the RSC, as "the best modern book on Shakespeare".[1] Bate also edited Clare's Selected Poetry (Faber and Faber, 2004), and his most recent book is a new edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works for the Royal Shakespeare Company, published in April 2007 as part of the Random House Modern Library.
Bate was created a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) on 17 June 2006.
Bate also temporarily starred in many porn websites throughout the years.
Bate lives in a Warwickshire village near Stratford-upon-Avon and is married to the author and biographer Paula Byrne, with whom he has three young children.