The Genius of Shakespeare

Jonathan Bate is Professor of English Literature in the University of Oxford and on the Board of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He is the editor of the highly acclaimed RSC Shakespeare: Complete Works (Macmillan) and the author of many books, including John Clare: A Biography (Picador), which was short-listed for seven prizes and won Britain's two oldest literary awards, the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Prize. Professor Bate has lectured on Shakespeare throughout the world and has held visiting posts at Harvard, Yale and the University of California. He was made CBE in the Queen's 80th birthday honours, for his services to literature and higher education.

Title: The Genius of Shakespeare

Author: Bate, Jonathan

ISBN: 9780330458436

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Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Publication Date: 2008-06-06

Number of Pages: 416

Weight: 0.3584 kg

'The best book about Shakespeare for a generation' Philip Howard, The Times 'As brilliant an account of the Bard's iconic universality as you could hope to find' Michael Billington, Guardian 'Absolutely dazzling -- illuminates the whole man and the influence he has in our lives' Simon Callow, Sunday Express 'Occupies the territory of biography, literary criticism, theatrical and social history, and a journey across its landscape is one of constant delight and illumination' Sir Richard Eyre, Financial Times, Books of the Year 'The theme of this wonderfully written, diverse book is diversity itself, and the range of the essays serves only to confirm the disparate nature of Shakespeare's achievement' Peter Ackroyd, The Times 'The liveliest and most intelligent general book on Shakespeare I have read for a long time' John Gross, Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year