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Torquemada (play)

play by Victor Hugo

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 28, 2024
Entity authorityQ1249139 ↗
Source-derived summary

Torquemada is an 1882 play by Victor Hugo about Tomás de Torquemada and the Inquisition in Spain. It criticized religious fanaticism and fanatical catholicism. It was first published in 1882, as a protest against antisemitic pogroms in Russia at the time.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Torquemada (play)” as play by Victor Hugo. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1882—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1869, 1882—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. The account is most persuasive where Torquemada, play and Victor can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as play by Victor Hugo. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 28, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q1249139. VIAF identifies the subject as 177898829. None of the 3 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1882.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Torquemada (play)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Torquemada (play) primary sources, Torquemada (play) archive and Torquemada research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Torquemada (play)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.