SoS #51 | Heidi Craig: Drama during the English Civil Wars

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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

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