Shakespeare's works had a significant impact on several French Romantic writers, including Dumas, Jules Lacroix, Meurice, Deschamps, and de Vigny. Many were probably present at the 1827 performance, or the prior performances of the same company, which were purported to have drawn all the French poets and leaders in Romantic thought.

Victor Hugo, for example, was an admirer of Shakespeare before the English troupe's visit in 1827, but the performance served to validate his inclinations about theater and literature, as well as create a favorable attitude in the public that helped his own work to take root in the Romantic fervor. Later in that same year, Hugo finished his play Cromwell. In the preface, Hugo argues for a reality in the theater that "was not that of the plain mirror, offering a simple reflection, but a concentrating force, an intensifying flame, such as had been offered in drama only by Shakespeare" (Raby 95). Much of his work thereafter reflected Shakespeare in his use of language, character, structure, and blending of comedy with tragedy. His play Hernani, which did away with the unities, was hailed by Romantics as a rallying point for their vision.

Interestingly, one Romantic, Eugene Delacroix, felt that the Shakespearean combination of comedy and tragedy, encouraged in France from about the time of Hugo's Cromwell, had a negative effect on plays, as well as novels, including those of Dumas and George Sand. He claims, "Shakespeare, immense genius, has the right to accustom our minds to this union of comic and tragic by his force, the frankness of his intentions and the grandeur of the plan, but this genre I believe forbidden to secondary genius" (Partridge 264).