Karl Young's The Drama of the Medieval Church, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1933, is a scholarly monograph. Its strength is that this two volume study by an American professor of English and theatre history at Yale is the foundational anglophone account of how the Quem Quaeritis trope grew into the full medieval drama tradition, still the standard starting reference nine decades later. Its limit is the ordinary one for a work this old: later scholarship has refined and in places revised its account, and it should be read alongside more recent studies of the same material rather than as the last word.
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Karl Young's The Drama of the Medieval Church, published by Clarendon Press, Oxford, in 1933, the middle tier reflecting that this two volume study by a Yale professor of English and theatre history is the foundational anglophone account of how the Quem Quaeritis trope grew into medieval drama, still the standard starting reference nine decades later, notwithstanding that later scholarship has refined and in places revised its account. NotesKarl Young (1879 to 1943) was an American professor of English and theatre historian at Yale. This two-volume study is the foundational anglophone scholarly account of the Quem Quaeritis trope's growth into the full medieval drama tradition, still the standard starting reference. Tier 2, a named specialist's scholarly monograph.
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AuthorKarl Young
PublisherClarendon Press, Oxford
Publication Year1933
URLhttps://archive.org/details/dramaofmedievalc0002karl_t1s5
Source Typeacademic monograph
Claims Backed By This Source (15 claims)
This source backs 15 claims across the atlas. As facts: 11 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Performance Works, 5 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 2 general references.
- Articles, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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