The Home of the Fleury Playbook

Authors

Fletcher Collins Jr., Mary Baldwin College

Abstract

In lieu of an abstract, the first paragraph of the essay follows:

The late and revered Professor Solange Corbin seems to have intended her 1953 Romania article to be controversial.¹ She wished to challenge the presumed origin of the famous Fleury Playbook² as the Abbaye St. Benoît-sur-Loire, to proclaim indeed that "Le manuscrit [of the Playbook] ne provient pas de Saint-Benoît," and that the Abbaye St. Laumer³ in Blois was a preferable location. In her challenge were echoes of Baconian and other Shakespearean lost causes that took a hundred years to run their courses and return us to a conviction that William Shakespeare of Stratfordon-Avon is the best candidate for the composition of the plays attributed to him.

Recommended Citation

Collins, Fletcher Jr. (1980) "The Home of the Fleury Playbook," Comparative Drama: Vol. 14: Iss. 4, Article 2.
Available at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/compdr/vol14/iss4/2