This is not independent scholarship; it is Encyclopaedia Britannica's own staff-written entry on the auto sacramental, one article inside the same continuously maintained project this atlas also records as a general source elsewhere. Use it for what this specific entry states about the genre's definition and staging; a claim needing deeper literary-critical detail needs a dedicated academic source produced outside Britannica's own staff.
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Reliability Tier2
Encyclopaedia Britannica's own staff written entry on the auto sacramental, the middle tier reflecting an editorially maintained reference project rather than independent scholarship, weighed against its ordinary reliability for the genre's plain definition and staging; a claim needing deeper literary critical detail needs a dedicated academic source produced outside Britannica's own staff. NotesDefinitional entry: a dramatic representation of the Eucharist, performed at Corpus Christi, derived from the processional tableaux tradition, reaching its height under Calderon de la Barca.
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AuthorEncyclopaedia Britannica
PublisherEncyclopaedia Britannica
URLhttps://www.britannica.com/art/auto-sacramental
Source Typeencyclopedia
Claims Backed By This Source (10 claims)
This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Performance Works, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
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