Biography
I have been a panel tutor for PACE for many years, teaching in-person and online courses on Shakespeare, Milton, and other Renaissance writers. I have written a book on Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, and other studies of Elizabethan literature. My focus in teaching is on the close reading of texts against a backdrop of their historical, literary and intellectual contexts. I love facilitating the special energy and excitement that can arise in a classroom discussion as we work together to unpack what a truly great work of literature has to offer.
An introduction to Shakespeare
| Short online courses
Milton and the meaning of freedom: an introduction to *Paradise Lost*
| Short online courses
A Knight in Borrowed Armour: an introduction to Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene'
| Short online courses
The Tempest and The Winter's Tale: Two Great Plays From Shakespeare's Final Period
| Short online courses
Shakespeare and the interpretation of history
| Short online courses