Jonathan Bate

Shakespeare scholar Professor Sir Jonathan Bate will preach at the festival service in St Mary Magdalene Church.

Bate is well known as a biographer, critic, broadcaster and scholar with interests in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, Romanticism, biography and life-writing, ecocriticism, contemporary poetry and theatre history. He is a governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company, broadcasts regularly for the BBC, and writes for The Guardian, The Times, The Times Literary Supplement and The Sunday Telegraph. His latest works include Being Shakespeare, a one-man play for Simon Callow. Bate is Provost of Worcester College, Oxford.

No ticket is required for the service, which is free and open to all.