Exhibiting Shakespeare

Patrides Lecture

Professor Jonathan Bate from Worcester College, Oxford, will deliver this year's Patrides Lecture, given in collaboration with Langwith College SCR, and sponsored by CREMS.

Well known as a critic, biographer and broadcaster, Jonathan Bate has held visiting posts at Harvard, Yale and UCLA. Among his books are a biography of Shakespeare, Soul of the Age, and a history of his fame, The Genius of Shakespeare. He is on the Board of the Royal Shakespeare Company and was chief editor of the RSC edition of Shakespeare’s Complete Works. 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, The Man from Stratford, went on national tour. A Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature, he was made CBE in the Queen’s 80th Birthday Honours.

C. A. (Dinos) Patrides was among the staff of the English Department at York University from 1964 to 1978; he became a professor before leaving for the University of Michigan, where he met his untimely death in 1986. He was a scholar of international distinction, his chief works being "Milton and the Christian Tradition", "The Grand Design of God", and "Premises and Motifs in Renaissance
Thought and Literature".  He also produced editions of Donne, Herbert, and Sir Thomas Browne, but Milton remained his chief love in seventeenth-century literature.

The Patrides Memorial Lecture was the inspiration of Hermione Lee, and was set up in 1988 as a collaboration between the Department of English & Related Literature and Langwith College.