Shakespeare and the Romantics (Paperback-2021)

About the Book

Romantic criticism, of which Shakespeare is the central figure, invented many of the modes of modern criticism. It is also distinct from many contemporary academic norms. Engaged with the social and intellectual currents of an age of revolutionary change, it is experimental, writerly, and individually expressive. Above all it is creative in response to the difficulties of understanding aesthetic experience in new ways, and in setting those experiences in new cultural and political contexts that Shakespeare's work helped to shape.

About the Author
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.