Jonathan Bate is a prominent British literary scholar, historian and biographer who has written extensively about Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, Romanticism, contemporary poetry and ...

Eric Rasmussen co-authored a book about the plays%2C which is out this week; He and co-author Jonathan Bate investigated Shakespeare%27s role as script doctor ...

Additions to the posthumous 1623 collection of Shakespeare's "Comedies, ... (2007) included 39 plays. Six years later, editors Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen are back with "William Shakespeare ...

In 1989, the same year as Shakespearean Constitutions showed that Shakespeare had been an “icon” and “cipher”, Bate wrote an essay showing that Shakespeare only fulfilled our definition of original ...

Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare Jonathan Bate Random House, 455 pp., $35 Bardisms Barry Edelstein HarperCollins, pp., $19.99 REVIEWED BY TOM MACKIN To commemorate ...

That's the brazen agenda of British scholar Jonathan Bate, and them's fighting words. ... Shakespeare himself becomes Prospero. . . . Literalism holds court, and metaphor sulks into exile.

Cut from a similar cloth of ardency, though more discursive, is Mad About Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room by Jonathan Bate (★★★★☆, William Collins), out now in ...

Mad About Shakespeare, by Jonathan Bate. William Collins, $32.99. One of the more welcome literary trends over the past decade has been the rise of the biblio-memoir. That is, memoir refracted ...

Shakespeare’s artistic sovereignty rests so squarely on the “First Folio”, published posthumously 400 years ago, that to imagine the book’s non-existence is to picture him dethroned, and ...