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Holinshed
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Hol·in·shed  (hln-shd, -nz-hd) Hol·lings·head (-ngz-hd), Raphael Died c. 1580.
English historian. His volume Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1577) was used extensively by Shakespeare as well as other Elizabethan dramatists as a source of historical information.
Holinshed [ˈhɒlɪnʃɛd], Holingshed
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(Biographies / Holinshed, Raphael (death date: ?1580) M, English, HISTORY: chronicler) Raphael. died ?1580, English chronicler. His Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1577) provided material for Shakespeare's historical and legendary plays
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The third examination compares the accounts of the reign of Richard II by the chroniclers Edward Hall and Raphael Holinshed.
Text/Events in Early Modern England: Poetics of History by Kinney, Arthur F. / Renaissance Quarterly
If the bills of complaint of 1450 do not mention any hostility for written culture as such, the reports of the 1381 rebellion as given by Richard Grafton or Raphael Holinshed depict the rebels's burning of all legal records and instruments and the destruction of the Savoy and of the Inner Temple (which is anachronistically ordered by Cade to his company entering in London: "Now go some and pull down the Savoy; others to th' Inns of Court.
Jack Cade, the skin of a dead lamb, and the hatred for writing by Chartier, Roger / Shakespeare Studies
See also Raphael Holinshed, Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 6 vols.
Early London pageantry and theater history firsts by Lancashire, Anne / Shakespeare Studies
 
 
 
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