Sacra Rappresentazione (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia's article on the sacra rappresentazione, the Italian tradition of vernacular religious drama that flourished from the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries, especially in Florence, staging biblical and hagiographic episodes for lay religious confraternities and civic feast days, is a community edited tertiary encyclopedia entry rather than a peer reviewed publication. Its strength is that it gathers the kind of stable, documentable facts about the form's civic and confraternal staging context that a general reference handles well. Its limit is that a claim about a specific play's theological or literary content needs a specialist study of Italian religious drama, not this overview alone.