William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays

About Jonathan BateProf. Eric Rasmussen

JONATHAN BATE is Provost of Worcester College and Professor of English Literature in the University of Oxford UK. Well known as a critic biographer and broadcaster he has held visiting posts at Harvard Yale and UCLA and was previously King Alfred Professor at the University of Liverpool and Professor of Shakespeare at the University of Warwick. Among his many books are a biography of Shakespeare Soul of the Age and a history of his fame The Genius of Shakespeare. His biography of the poet John Clare won Britain's two oldest literary awards the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Prize. His one-man play for Simon Callow Being Shakespeare was performed in Edinburgh London New York and Chicago and he was consultant curator for the British Museum's major exhibition for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad Shakespeare Staging the World. He is a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company Vice-President (Humanities) of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Eric Rasmussen is Foundation Professor of English and Chair at the University of Nevada. His recent publications include the award-winning catalogue raisonné The Shakespeare First Folios: A Descriptive Catalogue co-edited with Anthony James West and its companion volume The Shakespeare Thefts: In Search of the First Folios (Palgrave Macmillan). He is co-author with Lars Engle of Studying Shakespeare's Contemporaries (Wiley Blackwell) and is an editor of The Norton Anthology of English Renaissance Drama and of plays in the Arden Shakespeare series the New Variorum Shakespeare the Oxford World's Classics series the Revels Plays series and the Cambridge Complete Works of Ben Jonson. He has served on the Board of Trustees of the Shakespeare Association of America on the General Council of the Malone Society and as General Textual Editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions Project one of the most visited Shakespearean websites in the world.