York Mystery Plays' Wikipedia article is a community-edited encyclopedia entry, covering the earliest 1376 record, the 48-pageant cycle, guild sponsorship, pageant-wagon staging at twelve stations, the 1569 suppression and the surviving manuscript at the British Library. Its strength is that these are the kind of stable, documentable facts a general reference handles well. Its limit is that a claim about the plays' theological content or performance meaning needs a specialist scholarly source such as the Records of Early English Drama edition, not this overview.
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Reliability Tier3
York Mystery Plays' Wikipedia article is a community edited encyclopedia entry rather than a peer reviewed publication, hence the lower tier, though useful for the stable, documentable facts of the cycle's guild sponsorship, staging and 1569 suppression. NotesEncyclopedic facts: earliest record (1376), 48-pageant cycle, guild sponsorship, pageant-wagon staging at twelve stations, 1569 suppression, surviving manuscript at the British Library.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_Mystery_Plays
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (19 claims)
This source backs 19 claims across the atlas. As facts: 14 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Performance Works, 9 claims: 5 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Articles, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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