Jonathan D Bate

Jathan Bate

Jonathan Bate CBE FBA FRSL (born 26 June 1958) is a British academic, biographer, critic, broadcaster, novelist and scholar of Shakespeare, Romanticism and

All's Well That Ends Well (Modern Library Classics)

“A young man married is a man that’s marr’d.”—All’s Well That Ends WellEminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this classic play about gender, desire, and sexual love.THIS VOLUME ALSO INCLUDES MORE THAN A HUNDRED PAGES OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:• an...

Titus Andronicus & Timon of Athens (Modern Library Classics)

“These words are razors to my wounded heart.”—Titus Andronicus“We have seen better days.”—Timon of AthensEminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide fresh new editions of the two great tragedies: Titus Adronicus, a graphic story of revenge, and Timon of Athens, a cautiona...

John Clare: A Biography

The long-awaited literary biography of the supreme "poets' poet"John Clare (1793-1864) is the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self, but until now he has never been...

William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays (The Rsc Shakespeare)

Among the plays staged at the Globe and published in Shakespeare's lifetime were The London Prodigal by William Shakespeare, A Yorkshire Tragedy written by W. Shakespeare and Thomas Lord Cromwell written by W. S. Could Shakespeare really have written these plays? Why were they excluded from the Firs...

English Literature: A Very Short Introduction

A renowned critic, biographer, and Shakespeare scholar, Jonathan Bate provides in this Very Short Introduction a lively and engaging overview of the literature that Jorge Luis Borges called "the richest in the world." From the medieval "Hymn of Caedmon" to George Orwell's "Why I Write," from Jane Au...

The Song of the Earth

As we enter a new millennium ruled by technology, will poetry still matter? The Song of the Earth answers eloquently in the affirmative. A book about our growing alienation from nature, it is also a brilliant meditation on the capacity of the writer to bring us back to earth, our home. In the fir...

Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life

The Public Value of the Humanities (The WISH List)

Recession is a time for asking fundamental questions about value. At a time when governments are being forced to make swinging savings in public expenditure, why should they continue to invest public money funding research into ancient Greek tragedy, literary value, philosophical conundrums or the a...

The Complete Poems

The Romantics on Shakespeare

Titus Andronicus

The Oxford Illustrated History of Shakespeare on Stage

Elia and the Last Essays of Elia

The Genius of Shakespeare

The Genius of Shakespeare

Shakespearean Constitutions: Politics, Theater, Criticism, 1730-1830