Dr Paul Suttie

Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)

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Biography

Paul Suttie is a former British Academy Research Fellow and a panel tutor for PACE. His teaching for PACE includes online and in-person courses on Shakespeare and other Renaissance writers. He is the author of a book on Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene and other studies of Elizabethan literature. His focus in teaching is on the close reading of texts against a backdrop of their historical, literary and intellectual contexts.

Qualifications:

PhD English Literature, University of Edinburgh

BA English and Philosophy, Trent University Canada

Research

Dr Suttie's current work explores conflicts between different systems of moral, political and religious interpretation in the works of some major English Renaissance writers including More, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton.

Selected Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

“The Lost Cause of Platonism in The Faerie Queene.” Article, in Spenser and Platonism, a special volume of Spenser Studies. AMS Press , 2009
“Moral Ambivalence in The Legend of Temperance.” Article. Spenser Studies vol. 19 , 2004
“Exemplary Behaviour in The Faerie Queene.” Article. Journal of English and Germanic Philology, vol. 99 , 2000
“Edmund Spenser’s Political Pragmatism.” Article. Studies in Philology vol. 94 , 1998

BOOKS

Self-Interpretation in The Faerie Queene. Monograph. Boydell & Brewer , 2006

REVIEWS

Book reviews in Times Literary Supplement and Translation and Literature (UNKNOWN)

Forthcoming courses

King Lear: tragedy and beyond | Short online courses

Shakespeare and the interpretation of history | Short online courses

An introduction to Shakespeare | Short online courses

A Knight in Borrowed Armour: an introduction to Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene' | Short online courses

Milton and the meaning of freedom: an introduction to Paradise Lost | Short online courses

Past courses taught

Power and wonder in Shakespeare's Tempest | Summer Programme course

Milton’s Adam and Eve: the human factor in Paradise Lost | Summer Programme course

Milton and the meaning of freedom: an introduction to Paradise Lost | Online Courses

A Knight in Borrowed Armour: an introduction to Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene' | Short online courses

An introduction to Shakespeare | Short online courses

King Lear: tragedy and beyond | Short online courses

Shakespeare and the interpretation of history | Short online courses

Shakespeare's Henry IV Part One, a masterpiece of historical drama and its sources | Summer Programme course

More's Utopia: a radical Renaissance vision | Summer Programme course

Shakespeare and the interpretation of history | Online Courses

King Lear: tragedy and beyond | Online Courses

An introduction to Shakespeare | Online Courses

Milton and the meaning of freedom: an introduction to Paradise Lost | Online Courses

Mortality and mercy in Measure for Measure | Summer Programme course

Character and action in Julius Caesar | Summer Programme course

Shakespeare and the interpretation of history | Online Course

King Lear: tragedy and beyond | Online Course

Milton and the meaning of freedom: an introduction to Paradise Lost | Online Course

An introduction to Shakespeare | Online Course

Deeds and consequences in Macbeth | Summer Programme course

Two great Shakespearean Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merchant of Venice | Summer Programme course

An introduction to Shakespeare | Online Course

King Lear: tragedy and beyond | Online Course

Shakespeare and the interpretation of history | Online Course

Milton and the meaning of freedom: an introduction to Paradise Lost | Online Course

An introduction to Shakespeare's sonnets | Virtual Festival of Learning

Shakespeare's King Henry V: a heroic legend and its dark underside | Virtual Festival of Learning

An introduction to Shakespeare | Online Course

An introduction to Shakespeare's sonnets | Virtual Festival of Learning

Shakespeare's King Henry V: a heroic legend and its dark underside | Virtual Festival of Learning

Comedy and cruelty in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice | Virtual Festival of Learning

An introduction to Shakespeare's sonnets | Virtual Festival of Learning

Shakespeare and the interpretation of history | Online Course

King Lear: tragedy and beyond | Online Course

Milton and the meaning of freedom: an introduction to Paradise Lost | Online Course

An introduction to Shakespeare | Online Course

Three great Shakespeare Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night | Summer Programme course

An introduction to Milton's Paradise Lost | Summer Programme course

Hamlet's cousins: Revenge Tragedy in the time of Shakespeare | Summer Programme course

Mortality and mercy in Measure for Measure | Summer Programme course

Nature and justice in King Lear | Summer Programme course

Deeds and consequences in Macbeth | Summer Programme course

Milton and the meaning of freedom: an introduction to Paradise Lost | Online Course

An introduction to Shakespeare | Online Course

Shakespeare and the interpretation of history | Online Course

King Lear: tragedy and beyond | Online Course

The seductive beauty of English Renaissance poetry | Summer Programme course

Henry IV, Part I: a masterpiece of historical drama, and its sources | Summer Programme course

Literary influences II: crossing cultures | Summer Programme course

Literary influences III: wider worlds, fantastic places | Summer Programme course

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