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