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Raphael Holinshed (/ ˈ h ɒ l ɪ n ʃ ɛ d /; c. 1525 – before 24 April 1582) was an English chronicler, who was most famous for his work on The Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, commonly known as Holinshed's Chronicles.
Raphael Holinshed was an English chronicler, remembered chiefly because his Chronicles enjoyed great popularity and became a quarry for many Elizabethan dramatists, especially Shakespeare, who found, in the second edition, material for Macbeth, King Lear, Cymbeline, and many of his historical.
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The Holinshed Project Texts. Welcome to the texts of Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland. The site displays the two editions of the Chronicles, published in 1577 and 1587. The two editions are significantly different, and those new to Holinshed may benefit from the discussion of some of those differences elsewhere on this site.
Holinshed's Chronicles, also known as Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, is a collaborative work published in several volumes and two editions, the first edition in 1577, and the second in 1587.
Jan 5, 2009 · One of a uniform series of chronicles published under the superintendence of Sir Henry Ellis and others. The 1577 edition was compiled by Holinshed, William Harrison and Richard Stanyhurst; the 1587 edition was edited by John Hooker, assisted by Francis Thynne, Abraham Fleming and John Stow.
This Raphael Holinshed, described as ‘of Cophurst in the county of Cheshire, gentleman’, occurs in a statute merchant bond, dated 24 January 1571, in which Francis and Mary Corbet of Hatherton, Cheshire, acknowledged owing £1,000, payable at Easter, to him and to Edward Fitton of Gawsworth, Cheshire.
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May 21, 2018 · Holinshed, Raphael (d. c.1580), English chronicler. Although the named compiler of The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1577), Holinshed wrote only the Historie of England and had help with the remainder. The revised (1587) edition was used by Shakespeare.
