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Jonathan Bate was born June 26, 1958. He is a British biographer, broadcaster, and leading Shakespeare scholar. He studied at Sevenoaks School, the University of Cambridge, and Harvard University. At Cambridge, he was a Fellow of Trinity Hall. While studying at Harvard, he held a Harness mostrar mais Fellowship. Bate is a professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick. He was previously King Alfred Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool. He has also lectured at various universities in the United States. Bate is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature. He made the Samuel Johnson 2015 shortliast with his title Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life . Bate lives near Stratford-upon-Avon and is married to author and biography, Paula Byrne. They have three children. mostrar menos
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Obras de Jonathan Bate

The Genius of Shakespeare (1997) 290 cópias
John Clare (2003) 148 cópias
The Song of the Earth (2000) 74 cópias
William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays (2013) — Editor — 44 cópias
Shakespeare and Ovid (1993) 40 cópias
The Romantics on Shakespeare (1992) — Editor — 37 cópias
Shakespeare's Britain (2012) 20 cópias
English Romantic Poets (2022) 11 cópias
The Cure for Love (1998) 10 cópias
The Public Value of the Humanities (2011) — Editor — 10 cópias
The Shepherd's Hut (2017) 1 exemplar(es)
John Clare's New Life (2004) 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

Hamlet (1603) — Editor, algumas edições32,560 cópias
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (1589) — Editor, algumas edições31,575 cópias
Romeo and Juliet (1599) — Editor, algumas edições28,365 cópias
Macbeth (1606) — Editor, algumas edições25,895 cópias
Sonho de uma noite de verão (1603) — Editor, algumas edições19,661 cópias
Julius Caesar (1623) — Editor, algumas edições12,336 cópias
Twelfth Night (1601) — Editor, algumas edições10,680 cópias
As You Like It (1599) — Editor, algumas edições7,469 cópias
Henry V (1600) — Editor, algumas edições5,981 cópias
Antony and Cleopatra (1623) — Editor, algumas edições5,448 cópias
Henry IV, Part 1 (1598) — Editor, algumas edições5,017 cópias
The Winter's Tale (1623) — Editor, algumas edições4,737 cópias
Measure for Measure (1623) — Editor, algumas edições4,364 cópias
Titus Andronicus (1594) — Editor, algumas edições2,699 cópias
Henry IV, Part 2 (1600) — Editor, algumas edições2,533 cópias
The Complete Poems (1968) — Introdução, algumas edições712 cópias
Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia (1900) — Editor, algumas edições254 cópias
Selected Poetry of John Clare (2004) — Editor — 24 cópias
Book Illustrated: Text, Image, & Culture 1770-1930 (2000) — Contribuinte — 15 cópias
The Tempest: The Illustrated Screenplay (2010) — Prefácio — 12 cópias
Shakespeare and Race (2000) — Contribuinte — 11 cópias
Shakespeare Performed: Essays in Honor of R.A. Foakes (2000) — Contribuinte — 3 cópias
Shakespeare and the interpretive tradition (1999) — Contribuinte — 2 cópias

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Meh. Perhaps I'm not in the right mood for this kind of poetry. I took the excellent MOOC course about literature and mental health (future learn?) and this book is the outcome of that. It doesn't glimmer the way the poems and segments of writing did in the course. Perhaps I need to read them out loud.
 
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Dabble58 | 1 outra resenha | Nov 11, 2023 |
The topic is better discussed elsewhere (Stanley Wells' guide to Shakespeare's afterlife does a good job) but this is a lovely, dedicated work that will appeal to fans of theatre and theatre history.
 
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therebelprince | Oct 24, 2023 |
I'm so very glad to have this as part of my collection. I adore the layout and aims of Bate & Rasmussen's RSC Complete Works, even if I ultimately believe the more all-encompassing scholarship of the Ardens is the pinnacle in Shakespearean research. But every home should have a complete works, and the RSC is top-notch.

Of course, a "Collaborative Works" is always going to be divisive among reviewers, and my own mind is both rapturous and doubtful about this edition. The plays herein are freshly edited and lovingly presented, with a vast amount of detail about the authorship question, stylistic analysis, recent productions, and an overall view of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. (One of the most important changes in scholarship in the last 50 years is a renewed willingness to see Shakespeare as a creative working in an active theatre industry, rather than some gloomy tower-bound "author" creating plays.) While I'm academically conservative, it is true that the academic establishment has a tendency to grow defensive against change, and I welcome the editors keeping Shakespearean scholarship on its toes. Some of the plays here almost undoubtedly have the Bard's blood running through them, and it's great to see them being revived.

If I have any issues, it's really only that there could have been MORE. The editors openly admit that "The London Prodigal" is very probably not by Shakespeare. I'm completely fine with that. As they point out time and time again, this notion that plays by Shakespeare are instantly valid for our day and age while others are simply archaic is absurd. These plays are vibrant and enjoyable, as well as reminders of the great variety and versatility of the theatre of an entire age. So I suppose my shame is, after reading the introduction and reasons why some plays were omitted... well, why not include a few more? Make this a brand new "Works", to bring so many plays back into people's homes?

Anyhow, that's a slightly ambitious point. I'm very happy to have this. Bate & Rasmussen may have drawn the net too wide in search of Shakespeare (even if I think it is too narrow overall) but it's surely better to encompass all of Shakespeare plus some assortments, than to omit some of his words simply out of some sense of tradition?
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therebelprince | Oct 24, 2023 |
While the title could easily be applied to myself, the book actually demonstrates how the Bard’s works encompass the full gamut of human emotions, often as experienced in their extremity, and how the writer has also found them to be a source of solace.

Sir Jonathan Bate is one of the foremost Shakespearean academics and has devoted much of his life to advancing our understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare’s works. Indeed, he edited the plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company, and has written several other notable works of literary exegesis. This book takes the reader into a broader experience of the plays, and their impact upon the reader or audience.

Bate is just a few years older than me, and his introduction to the corpus was very similar to mine. Like him, I was fortunate enough to go to a very good school, and (for most of my time there) had some excellent, charismatic and gifted English teachers. My own first exposure to Shakespeare was in what we would now call Year 8, reading Julius Caesar under the occasional supervision of the Reverend Elliott, one of the school’s chaplain. He was very far from being either charismatic or gifted, and his total inability to exert any control over the class resulted in an initial alienation against The Bard that it took a lot of remedial work from far better teachers to overturn.

In this book, Bate considers how almost universally applicable Shakespeare’s works are, and how they have helped him cope with some of life’s more challenging moments. He also conveys the great joy of his discoveries in encountering new productions of Shakespeare’s plays.

I found this highly informative, while also easily accessible to the interested layman, such as myself.
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Eyejaybee | Aug 7, 2023 |

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