This volume presents a selection of essays by established Italian and international scholars in the field of Romantic drama. It is divided into four main sections 1 Dramatic Theory and Practice 2 On the Romantic Stage History Arts and Acting 3 Interaction of Genres from Fiction to Drama 4 The Romantics Debate on Theatre and Drama a Selected Anthology. The crucial area of debate these essays address is the way in which the problem of the dramatic representation of the self becomes in Romantic dra