Books by Jonathan Bate
“The play that came to define the series was Jonathan Bate’s edition of Titus Andronicus. That was a play that no one had really thought much of before and Bate did a really, really good, critical rehabilitation job on it. So, I think that’s a good example.” Read more...
The best books on Shakespeare’s Reception
Emma Smith, Literary Scholar
John Clare
by Jonathan Bate
Birds pop up in poetry all the time, and my favourite nature poet is John Clare, whom I like because he has got such a wonderful eye and ear for birds. He’s a very good observer. He was brought up in rural Northamptonshire as a poor farm labourer, and he had an intense feeling for his local landscape and a very deep knowledge of all the wildlife around him.
Interviews where books by Jonathan Bate were recommended
The best books on Birdwatching, recommended by Jeremy Mynott
What drives people’s passion for birds and birdwatching? For Jeremy Mynott, it’s as much about us as it is about them. He recommends the best books on birds and birdwatching.
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Titus Andronicus (Arden Shakespeare)
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Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History, from the Restoration to the Present
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Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America
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Shakespeare on Film
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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Shakespeare
by Alexa Alice Joubin (editor)
The best books on Shakespeare’s Reception, recommended by Emma Smith
The best books on Shakespeare’s Reception, recommended by Emma Smith
In the years after William Shakespeare died, his plays took on a life of their own. They meant different things to different people at different times as they spread around the world, turning a glover’s son from a one-horse town in central England into one of the best-known authors of all time. Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Oxford, recommends books to better understand ‘Shakespeare reception’—the study of Shakespeare since his death.
