This comprehensive and wide-ranging anthology includes ten fully edited and annotated Romantic plays, as well as an Appendix of reviews and contemporary essays on the theater, a Glossary of Actors and Actresses, and a guide to further reading.

The London theatres arguably were the central cultural institutions in England during the Romantic period, and certainly were arenas in which key issues of the time were contested. While existing anthologies of Romantic drama have focused almost exclusively on "closet dramas" rarely performed on stage, The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama instead provides a broad sampling of works representative of the full range of the drama of the period.