Books by Jonathan Bate
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English
review 1: Mostly-fascinating collection of essays, thoughts, theories and placing-you-there Elizabethan history that attempts to understand nothing less than the very mind of Shakespeare, as a man of his time, and--as Ben Jonson famously wrote--as a man "not of an age, but for all time." ...
language
English
series
review 1: This survey of English literature is engaging, humourous, and thorough in a way that it's possible only Jonathan Bate could pull off. I wouldn't recommend it to someone with no background studying literature (or at least, I'm not sure that someone could get as much out of the boo...