This volume illustrates the meanings the Romantics took from Shakespeare. It studies the critical practices and theories that evolved in England, Germany, and France, as well as the English stage and the relations between performance, criticism, and scholarship.

• 1: Introduction: Making it New


• 2: England: Genius with Judgement


• 3: Germany: 'our Shakespeare'


• 4: France: Revolution and After


• 5: Editors and Scholars: Inheritances and Legacies


• 6: The English Stage: the Age of Siddons


• Chronology


• Notes


• Further Reading

David Fuller is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Durham. He edited Tamburlaine the Great for the Clarendon Press complete works of Marlowe (1998), William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose (Longman Annotated Texts, 2000), and co-edited (with Patricia Waugh) The Arts and Sciences of Criticism (Oxford, 1999), and (with Corinne Saunders and Jane Macnaughton) The Recovery of Beauty (Palgrave, 2015). His edition (with Corinne Saunders) of Pearl, modernized by Victor Watts, was published by Enitharmon (2005). The Life in the Sonnets, with a complete recording of the poems, was published in the series 'Shakespeare Now!' (2011). He trained as a Musicologist and writes on opera and ballet.