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The Plays of Daniel and Joseph
2011
Overview
The Beauvais and Laon subdeacons’ offices differed from those in Sens and Le Puy in one significant respect. Each added a lively play to the liturgy of the feast: a Play of Daniel in Beauvais and an Office of Joseph in Laon.
The Beauvais Play of Daniel, now the best known and most frequently revived of medieval liturgical plays, is preserved in the same manuscript as the Beauvais office of the Circumcision.¹ Both were inscribed in the same hand and had the same musical notator,² but the play was probably composed earlier and copied into the surviving manuscript from a
