Jonathan Bate CBE FBA FRSL (born 26 June 1958) is a British academic, biographer, critic, broadcaster, novelist and scholar of Shakespeare, Romanticism and Ecocriticism. He is also Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, having succeeded Richard Smethurst who was Provost from 1991 to 2011.
He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) and FBA before being awarded Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 2015 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to Literary Scholarship and Higher Education. He is a literary scholar and provost at Worcester College at the University of Oxford in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England.
Writer
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Year
Status
Character
Being Shakespeare
2011
Thanks
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Year
Status
Character
Much Ado About Something
2001
Documentary special thanks - as Prof. Jonathan Bate
Self
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Year
Status
Character
Ian Hislop's Olden Days
2014
TV Series
Himself - Worcester College, Oxford University
Newsnight
2014
TV Series
Himself - Interviewee
Last Will & Testament
2012
Documentary
Himself
Meeting Shakespeare
2012
Documentary
Himself
A Renaissance Education: The Schooling of Thomas More's Daughter
2011
TV Movie documentary
Himself - Shakespeare Biographer (as Prof Jonathan Bate)
The Country House Revealed
2011
TV Series documentary
Himself
Late Review
2009
TV Series
Himself - Panelist
The Comedy Map of Britain
2008
TV Series documentary
Himself
The South Bank Show
2004
TV Series documentary
Himself
Seven Ages of Britain
2003
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
Much Ado About Something
2001
Documentary
Himself (as Prof. Jonathan Bate)
William Shakespeare
2000
Documentary
Author, _The Genius of Shakespeare_ (as Professor Jonathan Bate)
Known for movies
Much Ado About Something (2001) as Thanks
William Shakespeare (2000) as Author, _The Genius of Shakespeare_
$5 Million
