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Raphael Holinshed (/ ˈ h ɒ l ɪ n ʃ ɛ d /; [1] 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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Both the 1577 and 1587 versions are characterised by a number of inconsistencies between the physical composition of the volumes and their paratextual apparatus. Among the confused and confusing practices of those charged with the physical production of the books are the use of internal title pages, different methodologies of pagination, and multip...
Readers can navigateeach of the editions in a number of ways: 1. By using the original volume and chapter structure adopted by the original compilers 2. By using the subsection headings we have provided to break up the more unwieldy longer reigns (by which the material was originally organised) 3. By browsing on regnal years (at present this featur...
As the underlying texts have been derived from the EEBO-Text Creation partnership, they share some of the limitations of that resource. Illegible passages are indicated by dots in square brackets t...This is not an annotated edition, and while we hope to build in annotation in the future, for the time being it is a tool designed to make the texts more easily accessible, and more readily compara...Although the texts have been matched at paragraph level, some of the sections are quite long, which means that a particular portion you are seeking for comparative purposes may be embedded in a lon...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.
Dec 27, 2012 · The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1577, 1587), issued under the name of Raphael Holinshed, was the crowning achievement of Tudor historiography, and became the principal source for the historical writings of Spenser, Daniel and, above all, Shakespeare.
Registered in the mayor's court at Coventry, the fact that the bond is enrolled as an agreement between three Cheshire men militates against the identification of the creditor with the historian, who by 1571 had been settled in Warwickshire for nearly twenty-five years.
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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.
