Wakefield Mystery Plays' Wikipedia article is a community-edited encyclopedia entry, covering the mid-fifteenth century Towneley manuscript now at the Huntington Library, the thirty-two plays, the anonymous Wakefield Master credited with five including the Second Shepherds' Play, and performance continuing until 1576. 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 Wakefield Master's identity or specific authorship needs a specialist scholarly source, not this overview.
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Reliability Tier3
Wikipedia's article on the Wakefield Mystery Plays is a continuously revised tertiary encyclopedia entry with no named author or peer review process, hence the lower tier, though useful here for the stable documentable manuscript and performance record. NotesEncyclopedic facts: the Towneley manuscript (mid-fifteenth century, now Huntington Library, San Marino), thirty-two plays, the anonymous "Wakefield Master" credited with five of them including the Second Shepherds' Play, performance continuing until 1576.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield_Mystery_Plays
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (21 claims)
This source backs 21 claims across the atlas. As facts: 16 well-attested. 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, 11 claims: 7 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Articles, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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