One vast and rich, not to mention conspicuous, field of intertextuality that has not been seriously engaged in explications of Faith Healer is that contested canonical construct and contradictory discursive formation called Romanticism, and in particular English Romanticism. English Romanticism, at least as a historically delineated rather than a transhistorical movement. seems to stand at several removes from Friel's play, mediated by more recent and national textual instances. Nevertheless, even in the absence of any outright allusion, the portrayal of the faith healer's troublesome and awesome power, his intra-psychic strife, his transformation of others, and his visionary preparation for death can be approached as displaced variations on several motifs, concerns, and ideas of English Romanticism.