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
00:01:16 - 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