Abelard and Eloise
Abelard and Eloise is a play by Ronald Millar (1919 – 1998)[1]
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A play about the famous 12th-century Parisian love affair between the monastic scholar and poet Peter Abelard and and the innocent girl Héloïse d'Argenteuil who came to adore him. Inspired by Peter Abelard by Helen Waddell.
Abelard having lost his heart and his reason to Héloïse, has a child by her and, in violation of his vows, enters into a secret marriage. Heloise's vengeful uncle alerts the ecclesiastical authorities. The lovers are separated and Abelard is castrated. She enters a nunnery and he a monastery. They meet again years later when he turns over to her, as abbess, a community he founded at their parting.
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Performance history in South Africa
1971: Performed by ... with Paul Hardwick,
Sources
https://www.concordtheatricals.co.uk/p/2360/abelard-and-heloise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Millar
Percy Baneshik. 1971. Nominations made for theatre awards. The Star, 13 October, 1971.
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