Shakespeare and the Romantics provides an unequalled account of the importance of Romantic criticism not only for any critical evaluation of Shakespeare but also for the history of literary criticism.
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.