Dr. Catherine Bates

Catherine Bates is Research Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of: On Not Defending Poetry: Defence and Indefensibility in Sidney's Defence of Poesy; Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser (for which she won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 2015); Masculinity, Gender and Identity in the English Renaissance Lyric; Play in a Godless World: The Theory and Practice of Play in Shakespeare,...See more

Catherine Bates is Research Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of: On Not Defending Poetry: Defence and Indefensibility in Sidney's Defence of Poesy; Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser (for which she won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 2015); Masculinity, Gender and Identity in the English Renaissance Lyric; Play in a Godless World: The Theory and Practice of Play in Shakespeare, Nietzsche and Freud; and The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature. See less