This chapter considers Francis Kirkman’s Restoration reprints of two anonymous Tudor plays, Gammer Gurton’s Needle and Tom Tyler and His Wife. I argue both the form and contents of these reprints underscore the antiquity of English drama at a moment of its resurrection. The playbooks’ respective paratextual apparatus and contents tether them to the distant cultural and political past, while also gesturing to the extensive dramatic tradition that emerged over the course of a century. Each edition refers to publications or performances “about” or “near a hundred years ago.” Appearing when Restoration drama was developing a new idiom and updating pre-1642 professional plays to suit contemporary tastes, these reprints are resolutely old-fashioned. This essay argues the 1661 reprints of Tudor drama illuminate Restoration drama’s complex negotiation of its dramatic inheritance, in which English drama’s value derives partly from its longevity.