James Shapiro's Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of the World's Most Famous Passion Play, Pantheon, 2000, is a scholarly monograph. Its strength is that Shapiro, a professor of English and theatre at Columbia, wrote a book length study of the play's genesis, its historically antisemitic staging conventions, and the reform fight that produced the year 2000 text, not shying from the uncomfortable material. Its limit is the ordinary one for a single scholarly monograph: it is one historian's account of a contested reform process, though its documentary basis has not been seriously disputed.
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James Shapiro's Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of the World's Most Famous Passion Play, Pantheon, 2000, the middle tier reflecting a scholarly monograph published by a general trade imprint of a major house rather than a university press, weighed against Shapiro's own academic standing as a professor of English and theatre at Columbia and a documentary basis that has not been seriously disputed. NotesJames Shapiro is a professor of English and theatre at Columbia University; ISBN 9780375409264. A book-length study of the play's genesis, its historically antisemitic staging conventions, and the reform fight that produced the 2000 text, tier 2 as a single scholar's named monograph rather than a tertiary encyclopedia entry.
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AuthorJames Shapiro
PublisherPantheon Books
Publication Year2000
Source TypeScholarly work
Claims Backed By This Source (11 claims)
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Articles, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Performance Works, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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