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Article: Liturgical drama and the "School of Abelard".
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- Comparative Drama
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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The realization that the Beauvais Play of Daniel is intimately associated with the "School of Abelard" (1) has clarified many matters of doubt. We now know that there must have been a prototype play in the possession of the School, probably dating from Abelard's days at Laon, and that this explains why the various attempts to "derive" Hilary's Daniel play from the Beauvais version and vice versa were doomed to failure: (2) there was a tertium, not so much quid as a quo upon which both relied for much of their materials. We can also guess that Berengar, pupil of, apologist for (and probably cousin to) Abelard, was the author of the skits on the Beauvais Play of Daniel ...