The Play of Daniel
David Munrow had planned to do the classic Play of Daniel..but it was not be. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search The Play of Daniel , or Ludus Danielis , is either of two medieval Latin liturgical dramas based on the biblical Book of Daniel , one of which is accompanied by monophonic music. Two medieval plays of Daniel survive. The first is one of the plays in the Fleury Playbook , a 13th-century manuscript containing ten liturgical dramas; the text is by Hilarius , and no music accompanies it. The play itself dates from c. 1140. The second is a 13th-century drama with monophonic music, written by students at the school of Beauvais Cathedral , located in northern France. Both plays were completed about 1227 to 1234. [1] A large portion of the text is poetic rather than strictly liturgical in origin; it closely follows the narrative of the biblical story of Daniel at the court of Belshazzar . [2] The latter play was r...