Romantic Actors, Romantic Dramas

James Armstrong is an adjunct assistant professor at City College of the City University of New York, USA. He has contributed articles to European Stages, Theatre Notebook, Romard, Shaw, Keats-Shelley Journal, and Dickens Quarterly, and has reviewed books and performances for The Edgar Allan Poe Review, The Dickensian, Theatre Journal, The Shavian, and Performance, Religion, and Spirituality. He is also a playwright and member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: The Age of the Actor.- Chapter 2. The Progress of British Romantic Drama: A Brief Tour.- Chapter 3. Summoning Siddons: Joanna Baillie's Play for the Stage.- Chapter 4. Remorse and a Certain Glover: Coleridge's Unapologetic Dramatics.- Chapter 5. Kean for the Stage: Byron's Self-Fashioning in Manfred.- Chapter 6. Succeeding Siddons: Shelley's Unsung Muse.- Chapter 7. Conclusion: The Long Shadow.

“Those of us partial to the theatrical aspects of S. T. Coleridge’s literary life have fresh material to explore thanks to James Armstrong’s Romantic Actors, Romantic Dramas.” (Julie Carlson, The Coleridge Bulletin, Vol. 62, 2023)