Digital Restoration Drama
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Title
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Digital Restoration Drama
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Description
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A digital demonstration presented at the DHSI 2021 – Online Edition Conference & Colloquium, June 7–14, 2021
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Creator
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Lauren Liebe
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Date
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2021
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Format
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MP4, DOCX
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Rights Holder
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Lauren Liebe
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Language
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English
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Abstract
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Digital Restoration Drama (DRD) is an open-access database of play texts from the English Restoration. This period is critically understudied and often overlooked in its position between Renaissance drama and the eighteenth century. From this lack of study, a symbiotic relationship has developed: because these plays are not frequently written about or taught, they are infrequently published, and they are infrequently published because scholarship has not created a substantial demand for new (and expensive) print editions. The playwrights reprinted and anthologized from this period form a narrow, comedy-focused canon that does not accurately represent the full breadth of the period’s drama. DRD hopes to break this cycle by making these texts easily available in a free, clean, digital format. By making these plays available in machine-readable editions, this project expands access to Restoration drama for scholars and students alike.
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Type
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Digital Demonstration
