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As You Like It by Jonathan Eric; Bate Rasmussen
Category: Fiction | Series: RSC Shakespeare
From the Royal Shakespeare Company -- a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's journey into the Forest of Arden THIS EDITION INCLUDES: * An introduction to As You Like It by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate * The play -- with clear and authoritative explanatory notes on each page * A helpful scene-by-s ...Show more
BRIGHT STAR, GREEN LIGHT: THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED LIVES OF JOHN KEATS AND F. SCOTT FITZGERALD by Bate, Jonathan
Category: Biography
A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. 'Highly engaging ... Go now, read this book' THE TIMES 'For awhile after you quit Keats,' Fitzgerald once wrote, 'All other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.' John Keats died two hundred years ago, i ...Show more
Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful And Damned Lives Of John Keats And F. Scott Fitzgerald by Jonathan Bate
Category: Biography Memoir
A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald.'Highly engaging ... Go now, read this book' THE TIMES'For awhile after you quit Keats,' Fitzgerald once wrote, 'All other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.'John Keats died two hundred years ago, in Febr ...Show more
English Romantic Poets by Jonathan Bate (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
A greatest-hits selection from some of the most popular poets in the English language, in a gorgeously-jacketed small hardcover. William Wordsworth defined good poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings," and no generation of poets has felt more powerfully than the Romantics of the late ...Show more
English Romantic Poets by Jonathan Bate (Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction
A greatest-hits selection from some of the most popular poets in the English language, in a gorgeously-jacketed small hardcover. William Wordsworth defined good poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings," and no generation of poets has felt more powerfully than the Romantics of the late e ...Show more
GENIUS OF SHAKESPEARE by BATE JONATHAN
Category: Biography Memoir
This fascinating book by one of Britain's most acclaimed Shakespeare scholars explores the extraordinary staying-power of the world's most famous dramatist. Bate opens by taking up questions of authorship and then goes on to trace Shakespeare's canonization and near-deification, examining not only the u ...Show more
Genius of Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
Category: Biography Memoir
Who was Shakespeare? Why has his writing endured? What makes it so endlessly adaptable to different times and cultures? And how has Shakespeare come to be such a powerful symbol of genius? "The Genius of Shakespeare" is a fascinating biography of the life - and afterlife - of the greatest English poe ...Show more
How the Classics Made Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: E. H. Gombrich Lecture Ser.
From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman classics forged Shakespeare's imagination Ben Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of having "small Latin and less Greek." But he was exaggerating. Shakespeare was steeped in the classics. S ...Show more
Mad about Shakespeare - From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room by Jonathan Bate
Category: Classic Fiction
'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learning and loving in our modern lives. 'The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.' ...Show more
Mad about Shakespeare: from Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room by Jonathan Bate
Category: Biography Memoir
'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learning and loving in our modern lives. 'The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.' ...Show more
Much Ado about Nothing by Jonathan Bate (Editor); Eric Rasmussen (Editor); William Shakespeare
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Set in a courtly world of masked revels and dances, this play turns on the archetypal story of a lady falsely accused of unfaithfulness, spurned by her bridegroom, and finally vindicated and reunited with him. Villainy, schemes, and deceits threaten to darken the brilliant humor and sparkling wordplay-b ...Show more
Radical Wordsworth - The Poet Who Changed the World by Jonathan Bate
Category: Biography
On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth's birth comes a highly imaginative and vivid portrait of a revolutionary poet who embodied the spirit of his age. Published in time for the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth's birth, this is the biography of a great poetic genius, a revolutionary who changed ...Show more