Jonathan Bate CBE FBA FRSL is a British academic, biographer, critic, broadcaster, novelist and scholar of Shakespeare, Romanticism and Ecocriticism. He is also Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and Provost of Worcester College, Oxford. A Man Booker Prize judge in 2014. He studied at the University of Cambridge and Harvard University. He has been King Alfred Professor of English Literature at Liverpool University, Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick. He is married to author and biographer Paula Byrne. He has also written one novel, The Cure for Love.
Series
Books
Shakespeare
staging the world
2012
The Song of the Earth
2000
Romantic Ecology (Routledge Revivals)
Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition
1991
Mad about Shakespeare
From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room
2022
Stressed, Unstressed
Classic Poems to Ease the Mind
2016
The Genius of Shakespeare
1997
Bright Star, Green Light
The Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald
2021
English Romantic Poets
2022
Shakespeare and Ovid
1993
Ted Hughes
The Unauthorised Life
2015
John Clare
2003
How the Classics Made Shakespeare
2019
Radical Wordsworth
The Poet Who Changed the World
2020
Soul of the Age
A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare
2008
English Literature
A Very Short Introduction
2010
