Hawthornden Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 64 (2004) Winner
Jonathan Bate
ジョナサン・ベイト
Jonasan Beito
Aliases:
Sir Jonathan Bate / Sir Andrew Jonathan Bate
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1958-06-26 （Kent, England）
- Nationality
- British
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Kent, England → Cambridge → Liverpool → Warwick → Oxford → Arizona
Career
- Occupations
- Academic, Biographer, Literary critic, Broadcaster
- Active Years
- 1986-2025
- Affiliations
- Arizona State University, Worcester College, Oxford, Royal Shakespeare Company (board)
- Memberships
- Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL)
- Influenced By
- William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, John Clare
- Influenced
- Contemporary Shakespeare scholars, Ecocriticism scholars
- Nominations
- Shortlisted for Samuel Johnson Prize for John Clare biography, Shortlisted for Samuel Johnson Prize for Ted Hughes biography, Finalist for PEN/Jacqueline Weld Award for Soul of the Age
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sevenoaks School | — | — | — | — | United Kingdom |
| St Catharine's College, Cambridge | — | English | Double First | — | United Kingdom |
| Harvard University | — | — | — | Harkness Fellowship 1年 | United States |
| University of Cambridge | — | Shakespeare and Romantic Imagination | PhD | — | United Kingdom |
Sevenoaks School
Country:
United Kingdom
Kent County Council funded grammar school
St Catharine's College, Cambridge
English
Degree:
Double First
Year of Graduation:
1981
Country:
United Kingdom
Inaugural T. R. Henn Scholar, Charles Oldham Shakespeare Scholarship winner
Harvard University
Period:
Harkness Fellowship 1年
Country:
United States
Harkness Fellow for one year
University of Cambridge
Shakespeare and Romantic Imagination
Degree:
PhD
Country:
United Kingdom
Supervised by Richard Luckett
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Hawthornden Prize | John Clare: A Biography | — | Hawthornden Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2004 | James Tait Black Memorial Prize | John Clare: A Biography | 伝記部門 | — | 受賞 |
| 2006 | Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) | — | — | British Monarchy | 叙勲 |
| 2015 | Knighthood | — | — | British Monarchy | 叙任 |
| 2025 | Guggenheim Fellowship | — | — | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | 受賞 |
Hawthornden Prize
2004
Work:
John Clare: A Biography
Organization:
Hawthornden Foundation
Result:
受賞
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
2004
Work:
John Clare: A Biography
Category:
伝記部門
Result:
受賞
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
2006
Organization:
British Monarchy
Result:
叙勲
Knighthood
2015
Organization:
British Monarchy
Result:
叙任
Guggenheim Fellowship
2025
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
James Tait Black Memorial Prizes
1 appearances
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Edition 86 (2004) Winner
Works
Major Works
John Clare: A Biography
2003 BiographyThorough and insightful biography of 19th-century poet John Clare's life and mental struggles.
NatureMadnessRomanticism
Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life
2015 BiographyControversial unauthorised biography of poet Ted Hughes.
PoetryPersonal turmoilSylvia Plath
Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare
2008 BiographyInnovative biography structuring Shakespeare's life around the Seven Ages of Man from As You Like It.
ShakespeareRenaissanceCreativity
Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World
2020 BiographyBiography of William Wordsworth marking his 250th birthday.
RomanticismNatureRevolution
The Genius of Shakespeare
1997 Literary criticismWide-ranging assessment of Shakespeare's originality and influence.
ShakespeareOriginality
Bibliography
- Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination (1986)
- Shakespearean Constitutions: Politics, Theatre, Criticism 1730–1830 (1989)
- Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition (1991)
- Shakespeare and Ovid (1993)
- Shakespeare: An Illustrated Stage History (1996, co-edited)
- The Genius of Shakespeare (1997)
- The Cure for Love (1998)
- The Song of the Earth (2000)
- John Clare: A Biography (2003)
- Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare (2008)
- English Literature: A Very Short Introduction (2010)
- Shakespeare: Staging the World (2012, co-authored)
- Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life (2015)
- How the Classics Made Shakespeare (2019)
- Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World (2020)
- Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald (2021)
Adaptations
- Being Shakespeare one-man play
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Lucid and accessible styleBridging academic scholarship and popular readabilityNarrative-driven prose
- Recurring Motifs
- ShakespeareRomanticismEcocriticismBiographical approachNature and environment
Legacy
Pioneering scholar in Shakespeare, Romanticism, and ecocriticism. Renowned for biographies of John Clare, Ted Hughes, William Wordsworth, as well as scholarly editions and broadcasting.
In Popular Culture
- Frequent appearances in BBC and PBS documentaries
Trivia
- Youngest person knighted for services to literary scholarship and higher education in 2015.
- Married to biographer Paula Byrne.
- Wrote the one-man play Being Shakespeare performed by Simon Callow.