Contents: Introduction, Joseph M. Ortiz; Part I Rethinking the Romantic Critic: ’Small reverence for station’: Walter Savage Landor’s subversive Shakespeare, David Chandler; Peer reviewed: Elizabeth Inchbald’s Shakespeare criticism, Karen Bloom Gevirtz; ’My God! Madam, there must be only one black figure in this play': Hamlet, Ophelia and the Romantic hero, Karen Britland. Part II Shakespeare and the Making of the Romantic Poet: The state of unfeigned nature: poetic imagination from Shakespeare to Wordsworth, Thomas Festa; ’Mature poets steal’: Charlotte Smith’s appropriations of Shakespeare, Joy Currie; The sublimity of Hamlet in Emily Dickinson’s ’He fumbles at your soul’, Marianne Noble. Part III The Romantic Stage: ’The translucence of eternity in time’: Shakespeare and Coleridge’s Zapolya, Paola Degli Esposti; Contextual hauntings: Shakespearean ghosts on the Gothic stage, Francesca Saggini; Shakespeare reception in France: the case of Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet, Suddhaseel Sen. Part IV Harnessing the Renaissance: Markets, Religion, Politics: Reconstructing the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, Ann R. Hawkins; Pericles and the spiritual wisdom of Joanna Baillie’s sacred dramas The Martyr and The Bride, Marjean D. Purinton and Marliss C. Desens; A written warning: Lady Caroline Lamb, noblesse oblige, and the works of John Ford, Leigh Wetherall-Dickson; Bibliography; Index.