Jonathan Bate
Jonathan Bate CBE (born June 26, 1958) is a British scholar of Shakespeare, Romanticism and Ecocriticism.
He was educated at Sevenoaks School and the University of Cambridge. He was formerly a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and then King Alfred Professor of English Literature at Liverpool University before becoming Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at Warwick University.
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 and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for biography) . He 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 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.