Pt. 1. Rethinking the romantic critic
"Small reverence for station": Walter Savage Landor's subversive Shakespeare / David Chandler
Peer reviewed: Elizabeth Inchbald's Shakespeare criticism / Karen Gevirtz
"My god! madam, there must be only one Black figure in this play": Hamlet, Ophelia and the romantic hero / Karen Britland
pt. 2. 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
pt. 3 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
pt. 4. Harnessing the Renaissance: markets, religion, politics
reconstructing the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery / Ann Hawkins
Pericles and the spiritual wisdom of Joanna Baillie's Sacred dramas The Martyr and The Bride / Marjean Purinton and Marliss Desens
A written warning: Lamb's use of John Ford / Leigh Wetherall-Dickson.