Sir Jonathan Bate

His many books include: The Genius of Shakespeare, described by RSC founder Sir Peter Hall as “the best modern book on Shakespeare;” a biography of the poet John Clare, which won Britain’s two oldest literary awards; Soul of the Age, an intellectual life of Shakespeare; prize-winning biographies of the poets Ted Hughes and William Wordsworth; an "in parallel" study of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald; and Romantic Ecology and The Song of the Earth, pioneering book on poetry and the environment. He co-curated Shakespeare Staging the World, for the British Museum as part of the cultural festival during the London 2012 Olympics. He is also author of The Cure for Love, a novel inspired by the life of William Hazlitt, the hit one-man play for Simon Callow, Being Shakespeare, which premiered on the Edinburgh Fringe prior to three runs in London's West End and transfers to New York, Chicago and Trieste; and, most recently, Mad about Shakespeare, a memoir of his life in literature and theatre.

Full list of Books:

• Bate, J. 2022. Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard. HarperCollins, London, UK. ISBN: 9780008167493.
• Bate, J. and E. Rasmussen. ed. 2022. The RSC Shakespeare: Complete Works Second Edition. Random House Modern Library, NY. ISBN: 9780593230312.
• Bate, J. ed. English Romantic Poets. Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, Knopf, NY. ISBN: 9780593535523.
• Bate, J. 2021. Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. HarperCollins. London, UK. ISBN: 9780008424978.
• Bate, J. 2020. Radical Wordsworth: The Poet who changed the World. Yale University Press. New Haven, CT. ISBN: 9780300169645.
• Bate, J. 2019. How the Classics Made Shakespeare. Princeton University Press. Princeton, NJ. ISBN: 9780691161600.
• Bate, J. ed. 2018. Titus Andronicus: Revised Edition. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. ISBN: 978-1350030916.
• Bate, J. 2017. The Shepherd's Hut: Poems. Unbound. ISBN: 978-1783524297.
• Bate, J. 2016. The Genius of Shakespeare. Picador Classic edition. ISBN: 978-1509822564.
• Bate, J. and P. Byrne, S. Ratcliffe, A. Schuman. ed. 2016. Stressed Unstressed: Classic Poems to Ease the Mind. William Collins. 978-0008164508.
• Bate, J. 2015. Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life. HarperCollins (London, new York & Sydney). ISBN: 978-0062362438.
• Bate, J. 2013. Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition. Routledge, first published in 1991. ISBN: 978-0415856591.
• Bate J. and E. Rasmussen. ed. 2013. The RSC Shakespeare: Collaborative Plays by Shakespeare and Others. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 978-1137271440.
• Bate, J. and D. Thornton. 2012. Shakespeare Staging the World. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0199915019.
• Bate, J. and D. Thornton. 2012. Shakespeare's Britain. British Museum Press. ISBN: 978-0714128269.
• Bate, J. and S. Callow. 2012. Being Shakespeare. Illuminations, Act Productions & Sky Arts. DVD: 5-060291-820058.
• Bate, J. ed. 2011. The Public Value of the Humanities. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN: 978-1849660624.
• Bate, J. 2010. English Literature: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0199569267.
• Bate, J. 2009. Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare. Random House. ISBN: 978-1400062065.
• Bate, J. and E. Rasmussen. 2007. The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. Modern Library & Red Globe Press. ISBN: 978-0230200951. Individual Works, with extra editorial material, published in 34 volumes. 2008-2012.
• Bate, J. ed. 2004. John Clare: Selected Poems. Faber and Faber. ISBN: 0571-223710.
• Bate, J. 2003. John Clare: A Biography. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN: 978-0374179908.
• Bate, J. 2002. The Song of the Earth. Harvard University Press. ISBN: 978-0674008182.
• Bate J. and R. Jackson ed. 2001.The Oxford Illustrated History of Shakespeare on Stage. Oxford University Press, first published in 1996 as Shakespeare: An Illustrated Stage History. ISBN: 019-2802135.
• Bate, J. 1998. The Cure for Love. Picador. ISBN: 0330-347322.
• Bate, J. 1997. The Genius of Shakespeare. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0330371010.
• Bate, J. ed. 1995. The Arden Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus. Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare. ISBN: 978-1903436059.
• Bate, J. 1993. Shakespeare and Ovid. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0198129547.
• Bate, J. ed. 1992. The Romantics on Shakespeare. Penguin Books. ISBN: 013-0530215.
• Bate, J. 1989. Shakespearean Constitutions : Politics, Theater, Criticism, 1730-1830. Clarendon Press. ISBN: 9780198117490.
• Bate, J. ed. 1987. Charles Lamb: Elia & The Last Essays of Elia. Oxford World's Classics. ISBN: 019-2817647.
• Bate, J. 1986. Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0198128489.