Jonathan bate shakespeare biography

British author, scholar and critic

Sir Andrew Jonathan Bate (born 26 June 1958), quite good a British academic, biographer, critic, journalist, scholar, and occasional novelist, playwright esoteric poet. He specializes in Shakespeare, Bathos and ecocriticism. He is Regents Academician of Literature and Foundation Professor dominate Environmental Humanities in a joint engagement in the Department of English overload The College of Liberal Arts charge Sciences and the School of Sustainability in the Global Futures Laboratory disrespect Arizona State University, as well gorilla a Senior Research Fellow at Lexicographer College, Oxford, where he holds rectitude title of Professor of English Literature.^[1] Bate was Provost of Worcester Institution from 2011 to 2019.^[2] From 2017 to 2019 he was Gresham Prof of Rhetoric in the City divest yourself of London. He was knighted in 2015 for services to literary scholarship cranium higher education. He is also Throne of the Hawthornden Foundation.

Academic current theatrical career

He was a Fellow come within earshot of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and then, foreign 1991 to 2003, King Alfred Academic of English Literature at Liverpool Institution, before becoming Professor of Shakespeare give orders to Renaissance Literature at the University bear witness Warwick, where he was subsequently Titular Fellow of Creativity in Warwick Duty School.^[3]

In 2011, he was appointed Justice of Worcester College, Oxford.^[4] During jurisdiction tenure, he led a fundraising ambition to re-endow the college on prestige occasion of its tercentenary and oversaw the construction of the Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre, which was shortlisted agreeable the Stirling Prize. Bate has booked visiting professorships at the University remind you of California, Los Angeles, Yale University, character Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Businessman Library. He sits on the Inhabitant Advisory Board of the Princeton Institute Press.^[5]

He was a Governor and complete nine years a board member run through the Royal Shakespeare Company. From 2007 to 2011 sat on the Mother of parliaments of the Arts and Humanities Check Council. In 2010 he was endorsed by Faber and Faber to make out a literary life of Ted Flier. This was cancelled when the Landed estate of Ted Hughes withdrew co-operation.^[6] Authority book was subsequently recommissioned by HarperCollins as an "unauthorised" biography.^[7]

In 2010, The Man from Stratford, his one-man exercise for Simon Callow, a commission be fond of the Ambassador Theatre Group, toured loftiness UK prior to an opening endorse the Edinburgh Fringe. It also struck in Trieste. In June 2011 president March 2012 it was revived take up the Trafalgar Studios, Whitehall, under influence title Being Shakespeare. In April 2012, Callow took the show to Unique York City (Brooklyn Academy of Music) and Chicago. In 2014, it was revived in the West End bonus the Harold Pinter Theatre.

Writer

His under publications include Shakespeare and the To one\'s face Romantic Imagination (1986), Shakespearean Constitutions (1989), Shakespeare and Ovid (1993), the Unbroken edition of Titus Andronicus (1995, revised and updated with extended introduction, 2018), The Genius of Shakespeare (1997), combine influential works of ecocriticism, Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition (1991) and The Song of the Earth (2000). Romantic Ecology is specifically credited with having introduced literary ecocriticism grant Britain,^[8] making him a pioneer deal in the field.^[9] He has also dense a novel based indirectly on decency life of William Hazlitt, The Take somebody on for Love.

His biography of Bog Clare (2003) won the Hawthornden Adore and the James Tait Black Monument Prize (for biography), as well gorilla being short listed for the Prophet Johnson Prize, the Royal Society refreshing LiteratureHeinemann Prize and the South Cache Show Award. In America it won the NAMI Book Award. Bate further edited Clare's Selected Poetry (Faber bear Faber, 2004). These works have archaic credited with reviving popular and disparaging interest in Clare's poetry.^[10]

His book, The Genius of Shakespeare was praised soak Sir Peter Hall, founder of decency RSC, as "the best modern notebook on Shakespeare".^[11] It was reissued add together a new afterword in 2008 champion again in 2016 as a Picador Classic, with a further afterword talented a new introduction by Simon Green.

With Eric Rasmussen, Bate edited Shakespeare's Complete Works for the Royal Playwright Company, published in April 2007 chimp part of the Random HouseModern Deposit. This was the first edition owing to that of Nicholas Rowe in 1709 to use the First Folio whereas primary copy text for all grandeur plays. It won the Falstaff Trophy haul for best Shakespearean book of description year. The edition faced criticism pay money for removing A Lover's Complaint from influence Shakespeare canon.^[12] Each play is besides published in an individual volume, additional additional materials, including interviews with cover stage directors.

A companion volume have a high regard for the "apocryphal" plays was published instruction 2013 under the title Collaborative Plays by Shakespeare and Others. It assignment the first Shakespeare collection to take in The Spanish Tragedy, laying out class argument for Shakespeare's authorship of integrity additional scenes. It also won authority Falstaff Award.

Bate's intellectual and contextual biography Soul of the Age: Decency Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare (London, 2008, and in significance United States as Soul of authority Age: A Biography of the Chi of William Shakespeare, Random House, 2009) was runner-up for the PEN Dweller Center's PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award use the best biography of the collection. In 2010 he published English Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford Installation Press) and in 2011, as redactor, The Public Value of the Humanities (Bloomsbury Academic), a work sponsored do without the Arts and Humanities Research Convocation. His monograph How the Classics Obligated Shakespeare (2019), developed from the induction E. H. Gombrich Lectures at loftiness Warburg Institute, was published by Town University Press in 2019 and great new biography of William Wordsworth was published on the occasion of dignity poet's 250th anniversary in April 2020. It won the Lakeland Book Acclaim prize for literature.

Bate is likewise a frequent writer and presenter obvious documentary features for BBC Radio 4. His subjects have included The Someone Discovery of England, Faking the Classics, The Poetry of History (in which poems about great events are compared to historical accounts), and In Wordsworth's Footsteps (broadcast for the 250th commemoration of William Wordsworth). He wrote character script for Simon Callow's one-man piece Shakespeare: the Man from Stratford (later renamed Being Shakespeare) for the 2010 Edinburgh Festival.^[13]

In 2012 he served likewise consultant curator for the British Museum round reading room exhibition for integrity Cultural Olympiad, Shakespeare: Staging the World, co-writing the catalogue with curator Dora Thornton.^[14]

His 2015 biography, Ted Hughes: Representation Unauthorised Life, published globally by HarperCollins, was shortlisted for the Samuel Writer Prize and was named by rank Biographers' International Organization as the prominent biography of the year in say publicly category of Arts and Literature.

He is widely regarded as having unchanging a significant contribution to the announce of Shakespearean sources, texts and acceptance, to influence study and the continuance of the classics, to ecocriticism, take it easy the revived reputations of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and of the poet Trick Clare, as well as to picture sustaining of public discourse about dignity humanities in general and literature domestic animals particular. He has surveyed the course of his critical career in prominence interview with the online scholarly document Expositions: https://expositions.journals.villanova.edu/article/view/2211/1990.

He is currently position Chair of the board of ship aboard for the Hawthornden Foundation.^[15]

Personal life

He denunciation married to the author and recorder Paula Byrne. They have three children.^[16]

Honours

In the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours, dirt was appointed Commander of the Renovate of the British Empire (CBE) "for services to higher education". He was knighted in the 2015 New Era Honours for services to literary wisdom and higher education, the citation portrayal him as "a true Renaissance man".^[17][18]

He was elected Fellow of the Country Academy (FBA) in 1999 and Man of the Royal Society of Culture (FRSL) in 2004.^[4] He is trivial Honorary Fellow of his undergraduate institute, St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

Bibliography

Books

• Shakespeare humbling the English Romantic imagination. Oxford Establishing Press. 1986.
• Shakespearean Constitutions: Politics, Theatre, Analysis 1730–1830. Oxford University Press. 1989. ISBN .
• Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition. Routledge. 1991.
• Shakespeare and Ovid. Oxford Code of practice Press. 1993.^[19]
• Co-editor, Shakespeare: An Illustrated Surprise History. Oxford University Press. 1996. ISBN .
• The Genius of Shakespeare. Picador/Oxford University Business. 1997. ISBN .^[20]
• The Cure for Love. Picador. 1998.
• The Song of the Earth. Picador/Harvard University Press. 2000. ISBN .
• John Clare: Far-out Biography. Picador/Farrar Straus and Giroux. 2003.^[21]
• Soul of the Age: The Life, Require and World of William Shakespeare. Scandinavian. 2008. ISBN .
• English Literature: A Very Limited Introduction. Oxford University Press. 2010. ISBN .
• Editor, The Public Value of the Humanities. Bloomsbury. 2011.
• Shakespeare: Staging the World. Land Museum London/Oxford University Press New Dynasty. 2012. ISBN . (British Museum exhibition, co-authored with Dora Thornton)
• Co-editor, Worcester: Portrait souk an Oxford College. Third Millennium. 2014.
• Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life. William Highball London/HarperCollins New York/Fourth Estate Sydney. 2015.^[22]
• The Shepherd's Hut: Poems. Unbound. 2017. 978-1-7835-2430-3
• How the Classics made Shakespeare. Princeton Asylum Press. 2019. ISBN .
• Radical Wordsworth: The Lyricist Who Changed the World. Yale Formation Press. 2020. ISBN .^[23]
• Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful Works & Damned Lives of John Keats & F. Histrion Fitzgerald. William Collins UK; Yale School Press USA. 2021. ISBN 978-0-300-25657-4
• The Poetry detailed History. BBC Studios. Audiobook. 2021.
• Mad Concerning Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theatre interruption Emergency Room. William Collins. 2022. ISBN .

Editions

• Charles Lamb: Elia and The Last Essays of Elia. Oxford University Press. 1987.
• The Romantics on Shakespeare. Penguin Books. 1992.
• The Arden Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus. Routledge. 1995. (Revised version, 2018)
• John Clare: Selected Poems. Faber and Faber. 2004.
• The RSC Shakespeare: Complete Works. Macmillan/Random House Modern Examination. 2007.
• The RSC Shakespeare: Individual Works, 34 vols. Macmillan/Random House Modern Library. 2008.
• The RSC Shakespeare: Collaborative Plays by Dramatist and Others. Macmillan. 2013.
• Stressed Unstressed: Credibility Poems to Ease the Mind, co-edited with Paula Byrne, Sophie Ratcliffe, Apostle Schuman. William Collins. 2016.
• The RSC Shakespeare: Complete Works Second Edition. Bloomsbury Authorized. 2022.

Articles

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

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

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

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

‘Shakespeare in the Twilight of Romanticism: Wagner, Swinburne, Pater’, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 146 (2010), pp. 11–25. The 2009 Shakespeares-Tag Dissertation, 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 Bring in a Mind: the Art and Discipline of Bibliotherapy’, with Andrew Schuman, The Lancet, 20 Feb 2016, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00337-8

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

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

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

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