Clifford Leech

Who is Clifford Leech?

Clifford Leech was a prolifically published British-born professor of English at University College at the University of Toronto 1963-74. His contribution to Christopher Marlowe studies was considered "historically important." In Canada he was considered a "distinguished scholar." His publications mainly concerned Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists, including William Shakespeare, John Webster and John Ford. He also wrote a book on American playwright Eugene O'Neill. Leech's published reviews include one on a Canadian play, The Last of the Tsars, produced at Stratford, Ontario in 1966 on the subject of the last Russian czar.

Leech was a scholarly colleague of Northrop Frye.