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Holinshed's Chronicles
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. It was a large, comprehensive description of British history published in three volumes (England, Scotland and Ireland).
The Chronicles have been a source of interest because of their extensive links to Shakespearean history, as well as King Lear, Macbeth and Cymbeline. Recent studies of the Chronicles have focused on an inter-disciplinary approach; numerous literary scholars have studied the traditional historiographical materials through a literary lens, with a focus on how contemporary men and women would have read historical texts.[1]
The Chronicles would have been a primary source for many other literary writers of the Renaissance such as Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser and George Daniel.[2]
- ^ Richard, Helgerson (2000). Forms of nationhood : the Elizabethan writing of England. Univ. of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226326337. OCLC 248951289.
- ^ "Holinshed's Chronicles, 1577". The British Library. Archived from the original on 4 April 2023. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
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