Jonathan Bate
Jonathan Bate (born June 26, 1958) is a British scholar of Shakespeare and Romanticism.
He was educated at Sevenoaks School and the University of Cambridge. He teaches 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 for Literature. His most recent book is an edition of Clare's Selected Poetry (Faber and Faber, 2004), and he is currently editing a new edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works for the Royal Shakespeare Company.