Bringing together eminent scholars and emerging critics who offer a range of perspectives and critical methods, this collection sets a new standard in Beddoes criticism. In line with the goals of Ashgate´s Research Companion series, the editors and contributors provide an overview of Beddoes´s criticism and identify significant new directions in Beddoes studies. These include exploring Beddoes´s German context, only recently a site of critical attention; reading Beddoes´s plays in light of gender theory; and reassessing Beddoes´s use of dramatic genre in the context of recent work by theatre historians. Rounding out the volume are essays devoted to key areas in Beddoes´s scholarship such as nineteenth-century medical theories, psychoanalytic myth, and Romantic ventriloquism. This collection makes the case for Beddoes´s centrality to contemporary debates about nineteenth-century literary culture and its contexts and his influence on Modernist conceptions of literature.