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N-Town Plays (Wikipedia)

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N-Town Plays' Wikipedia article is a community-edited encyclopedia entry, covering the sole surviving manuscript at the British Library, the plays' East Anglian linguistic origin, the forty-two plays plus a banns, the Ludus Coventriae naming confusion, and content spanning Creation to the Last Judgment. 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 cycle's authorship or theological program needs a specialist scholarly source, not this overview.

Facts
Assessment
Reliability Tier
3
N-Town Plays' Wikipedia article is a community edited encyclopedia entry, covering the sole surviving manuscript, with no named author or peer review process, hence the lower tier for this tertiary source.
Notes
Encyclopedic facts: sole surviving manuscript (British Library, Cotton Vespasian D.8), East Anglian linguistic origin, forty-two plays plus a banns, the Ludus Coventriae/Hegge Cycle naming confusion, content spanning Creation to the Assumption and Last Judgment.
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Wikipedia contributors
Publisher
Wikipedia
Publication Year
2026
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Town_Plays
Source Type
reference
Claims Backed By This Source (22 claims)

This source backs 22 claims across the atlas. As facts: 16 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Performance Works, 12 claims: 7 well-attested, 4 holds, 1 general references.
  • Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
  • Articles, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.

Holds

4

Performance Works

General References

2

Performance Works

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