About

I am an AHRC funded PhD student in English at Durham University. My thesis explores Mikhail Bakhtin’s criticism of Shakespeare and drama more generally, looking to build a Bakhtinian aesthetics of theatre to consider Shakespearean performance through time.

Education

BA Durham University

MA The Shakespeare Institute

Blog Posts

    Publications

    Patrick Gray and Helen Clifford, ‘William Shakespeare’ in Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy ed.  Marco Sgarbi (Springer, Cham)

    Upcoming Talks and Conferences

    ‘Staging Race Then and Now: American Moor and An Octoroon‘ in the ‘Shakespeare Performance and the UK’ seminar at the British Shakespeare Association Conference, Swansea University, 17th-20th July 2019

    Memberships

    Member of the British Shakespeare Association

    Helen Clifford

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