This is a talk with Heidi Craig of the University of Toronto about her recent book on drama during the English Civil War period: 


00:00:00 - Intro


00:00:00 - Drama during the English Civil Wars


00:05:46 - Old drama/new drama, when Shakespeare wasn’t first


00:08:45 - Periodization of drama


00:13:10 - Secret or underground performance


00:17:01 - Plays becoming literary and commercial products


00:21:50 - The effort to kill off drama and theatre and fun


00:27:28 - Elevating/ destroying drama politics/ pandemic


00:33:12 - Historic preservation and the digital age


00:36:45 - Early Modern Dramatic Paratexts (EMDP)


00:42:18 - Linked Early Modern Drama Online (LEMDO)


00:51:00 - The value of preservation


00:52:20 - The Last Age and Old Plays


00:56:26 - The value of the archive, Folger et al.


00:58:46 - Heidi’s current position/ the scholarly community


01:05:00 - Upcoming projects/ rags and paper


01:11:10 - Closing remarks