Wikipedia's article on the autos sacramentales, the Spanish Golden Age tradition of one-act allegorical plays dramatizing the Eucharist and performed for the Corpus Christi feast, is a community edited tertiary encyclopedia entry rather than a peer reviewed publication. Its strength is that it gathers the kind of stable, well documented facts about the form's origin, performance context and its most celebrated practitioners, such as Calderon de la Barca, that a general reference handles well. Its limit is that a claim about the theological argument or literary interpretation of a specific auto needs a specialist study of Spanish Golden Age religious drama rather than this overview alone.
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Reliability Tier3
Wikipedia's article on the autos sacramentales is a continuously revised, community edited tertiary encyclopedia entry with no named author or peer review process, hence the lower tier, though useful for the form's stable documented performance context and history. NotesTertiary encyclopedic overview, tier 3: the tableaux origin in the Corpus Christi procession, Gil Vicente's 1504 Auto de San Martin as the commonly cited but contested first instance, Calderon de la Barca's seventeenth century dominance of the form, and the 1765 royal ban.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autos_sacramentales
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (19 claims)
This source backs 19 claims across the atlas. As facts: 13 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. 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: 4 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 3 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Articles, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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