Author: Paulina Kewes
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 811
ISBN-13: 0199565759
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Handbook brings together forty articles by leading scholars of history, literature, religion, and classics, in the first full investigation of the significance of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577, 1587), the greatest of Elizabethan chronicles and a principal source for Shakespeare's history plays.
Author: Annabel Patterson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1994-10-15
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780226649115
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reading Holinshed's Chronicles is the first major study of the greatest of the Elizabethan chronicles. Holinshed's Chronicles—a massive history of England, Scotland, and Ireland—has been traditionally read as the source material for many of Shakespeare's plays or as an archaic form of history-writing. Annabel Patterson insists that the Chronicles be read in their own right as an important and inventive cultural history. Although we know it by the name of Raphael Holinshed, editor and major compiler of the 1577 edition, the Chronicles was the work of a group, a collaboration between antiquarians, clergymen, members of parliament, poets, publishers, and booksellers. Through a detailed reading, Patterson argues that the Chronicles convey rich insights into the way the Elizabethan middle class understood their society. Responding to the crisis of disunity which resulted from the Reformation, the authors of the Chronicles embodied and encouraged an ideal of justice, what we would now call liberalism, that extended beyond the writing of history into the realms of politics, law, economics, citizenship, class, and gender. Also, since the second edition of 1587 was called in by the Privy Council and revised under supervision, the work constitutes an important test case for the history of early modern censorship. An essential book for all students of Tudor history and literature, Reading Holinshed's Chronicles brings into full view a long misunderstood masterpiece of sixteenth-century English culture.
Author: Raphael Holinshed
Publisher:
Published: 2012-05
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781781391938
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"From the time of Noah's flood to the end of Roman dominion."
Author: Raphael Holinshed
Publisher: New York : Putnam
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13:
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